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The National Institute of Standards and Technology said it awarded $7 million in grants for pilot programs to support its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The initiative, begun in 2011, is to encourage collaboration among government agencies, the…

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private sector and advocacy groups. The five grants announced Tuesday “will support privacy-enhancing technologies that help make Internet transactions more secure, including better protection from fraud and identity theft, and are an important step toward giving American companies and consumers greater confidence in doing business online,” said Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker in a news release. The grants are: $1.72 million to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, $1.59 million to Privacy Vaults Online, $1.61 million to Exponent, $1.26 million to Transglobal Secure Collaboration Participation and $1.2 million to ID.me (http://1.usa.gov/1899vPP).