Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 4981 (Introduced in Senate) — To support research on privacy enhancing technologies and promote responsible data use, and for other purposes. · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Definitions

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In this Act: The term personal data means information that identifies, is linked, or is reasonably linkable to, an individual or a consumer device, including derived data. The term privacy enhancing technology — means any software solution, technical processes, or other technological means of enhancing the privacy and confidentiality of an individual’s personal data in data or sets of data; and includes anonymization and pseudonymization techniques, filtering tools, anti-tracking technology, differential privacy tools, synthetic data, and secure multi-party computation.