1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i Proposals for a National Secure Data Service, in Context August 5, 2021 On June 28, 2021, the House passed H.R. 2225, the National Science Foundation for the Future Act, which would authorize appropriations and certain act
2、ivities. One provision would establish a “National Secure Data Service” (NSDS) demonstration project. The proposal relates to a recommendation from an earlier Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP). Among other things, CEP was charged with considering whether a federal government “clearingh
3、ouse” for program and survey data should be established. CEP interpreted clearinghouse to mean “a data storage facility that permanently stores records from multiple databases from multiple agencies and, therefore, grows with each new data linkage.” CEP rejected the clearinghouse model, however, cit
4、ing “well-founded concerns about the potential privacy harm such a clearinghouse could raise.” Instead, it recommended establishment of an NSDS, which would “temporarily link existing data and provide secure access to those data for exclusively statistical purposes in connection with approved projec
