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Late last week, Representative Lori Trahan (MA-03) published Privacy, Trust, and Effective Government: A Bipartisan Blueprint for Modernizing the Privacy Act, a that outlines ten ways to strengthen the Privacy Act of 1974. This blueprint comes after ¹ú²úÊÓƵ's Open Technology Institute (OTI) submitted comments to Trahan that recommend modernizing the Privacy Act by integrating privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) into federal data systems and reinforcing core privacy protections.

The blueprint cites OTI’s report How to Protect Government Data with Privacy-Enhancing Technology and calls for adopting privacy-enhancing technologies and techniques. It also calls for right-sizing requirements through robust data minimization—a practice OTI has consistently promoted.