Lawmakers Move to Push Forward Privacy-Enhancing Tech Mary Long/Shutterstock.com email February 5, 2021 The Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act would drive research into tools that can help protect personal data. Federal agency-backed research to advance technology-based mechanisms for safeguarding individuals’ sensitive digital details is at the core of bipartisan legislation put forward in both congressional chambers this week. The Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act, introduced by Reps. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., and Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, and Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Deb Fischer, R-Neb., would codify support for data anonymization tools, confidentiality-enabling algorithms and other privacy-enhancing technologies, or PETs, designed to help secure people’s personal data.