National Science Foundation privacy research

The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation and collaboration with the Director of the Digital Privacy Agency, shall make awards on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education or non-profit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to support multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary socio-technical research to design, prototype, and translate to practice privacy-preserving technologies and increase understanding of the human, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of such technologies, including research on the following: (1) Public understanding, expectations, and perspectives on privacy. (2) Consumer privacy rights, including right to access, correction, deletion, data portability, individual autonomy, impermanence, and to be informed. (3) Privacy governance and transparency, including notice and consent processes and the efficacy of privacy policies. (4) Empowering consumers for data ownership and control. (5) Privacy by design. (6) Privacy-preserving automated decision-making systems and human review of automated decision-making systems. (7) Ensuring privacy in consumer surveillance systems. (8) User interfaces, including design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce, or deceive consumers. (9) Privacy implications of emerging technologies. (10) Incentives to implement privacy protections.