Protecting Stolen Encrypted Data Act of 2026

This bill would require the President, working through the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, to develop strategies to find sensitive data and classified information held unlawfully by foreign entities. Covered data includes financial, medical, and biometric data, intellectual property, and trade secrets of United States persons. The strategies would also look at whether the data was encrypted and whether foreign entities have decrypted it. If the two officials jointly decide it serves U.S. economic and national security interests, they could try to destroy, manipulate, or recover encrypted data that has not yet been decrypted, and inform the lawful owners when practicable. They would have to report to Congress on these strategies and actions within one year.

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Sponsors

• Margaret Wood Hassan Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors