Law note · Indiana
Indiana Computer Trespass, lack of owner's consent
What it asks of an app
- Do not access an Indiana-connected computer system or network without the owner's consent; an openly served public page has not withheld consent on the statute's own terms, though no Indiana court has confirmed this reading.
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
Section 35-43-2-3(b) provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally accesses a computer system, computer network, or any part of either without the consent of the owner or the owner's licensee commits computer trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. This is phrased as lack of the owner's consent, a single-prong test with no separate exceeds authority prong, closer in structure to several peer states' single-prong wording though those use authorization rather than consent as the operative noun.
The same chapter separately punishes, at section 35-43-1-8, knowing and intentional unauthorized disruption or denial of computer system services. No Indiana appellate decision squarely construes section 35-43-2-3 against a scraper of an open public page.