,,ii  #aafth ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,s4 #acdh  ,,in ,,the ,,senate ,,of     
,,the ,,united ,,states  ,may #g1       
#bjai,mr4 ,sasse 7for himself1 ,mr4     
,king1 ,mr4 ,rounds1 and ,mrs4          
,gillibrand7 introduced the following   
bill2 which was read twice and referred 
to the ,committee on ,armed ,services   
,a ,,bill  ,to require the ,secretary of
 ,defense to conduct a study on         
cyberexploitation of members of the     
,armed ,forces and their families1 and  
for other purposes4  #a4 ,study on      
cyberexploitation of members of the     
,armed ,forces and their families  7a7  
,study required ,not later than #aej    
days after the date of the enactment of 
this ,act1 the ,secretary of ,defense   
shall complete a study on the           
cyberexploitation of the personal       
information and accounts of members of  
the ,armed ,forces and their families4  
7b7 ,elements ,the study required by    
subsection 7a7 shall include the        
following3 7#a7 ,an assessment of the   

vulnerability of members of the ,armed  
,forces and their families to           
inappropriate access to their personal  
information and accounts of such members
 and their families1 including          
identification of particularly          
vulnerable subpopulations4  7#b7        
,creation of a catalogue of past and    
current efforts by foreign governments  
and non-state actors at the             
cyberexploitation of the personal       
information and accounts of members of  
the ,armed ,forces and their families1  
including an assessment of the purposes 
of such efforts and their degrees of    
success4  7#c7 ,an assessment of the    
actions taken by the ,department of     
,defense to educate members of the      
,armed ,forces and their families1      
including particularly vulnerable       
subpopulations1 about any actions that  
can be taken to otherwise reduce these  
threats4  7#d7 ,assessment of the       
potential for the cyberexploitation of  
misappropriated images and videos as    

well as deep fakes4  7#e7 ,development  
of recommendations for policy changes to
 reduce the vulnerability of members of 
the ,armed ,forces and their families to
 cyberexploitation1 including           
recommendations for legislative or      
administrative action4  7c7 ,report     
7#a7 ,in general ,the ,secretary shall  
submit to the congressional defense     
committees a report on the findings of  
the ,secretary with respect to the study
 required by subsection 7a74  7#b7 ,form
 ,the report required by paragraph 7#a7 
shall be submitted in unclassified form1
 but may include a classified annex4    
7d7 ,definitions ,in this section3 7#a7 
,the term congressional defense         
committees has the meaning given such   
term in section #aja of title #aj1      
,united ,states ,code4  7#b7 ,the term  
cyberexploitation means the use of      
digital means to knowingly access1 or   
conspire to access1 without             
authorization1 an individual's personal 
information to be employed 7or to be    

used for7 with malicious intent4  7#c7  
,the term deep fake means the digital   
insertion of a person's likeness into or
 digital alteration of a person's       
likeness in visual media1 such as       
photographs and videos1 without the     
person's permission and with malicious  
intent4