Law / United States / 
Indiana
Indiana Computer Trespass, lack of owner's consent
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not access an Indiana-connected computer system or network without the owner's consent; the statute does not say whether serving a page openly is consent to an ordinary request for it, and an owner's express refusal, such as a written demand to stop or a block, leaves later access without consent.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does an owner who serves a page to any visitor consent to an automated request for that page, so that the request is not access 'without consent from the owner' under IC 35-43-2-3(b)?
- Does a written demand to stop, or a technical block, withdraw consent so that later automated access is 'without consent from the owner' under IC 35-43-2-3(b)?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 35-43-2-3 defines access, computer network, computer system and hoarding program, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly or intentionally access a computer system or network without the owner's consent, makes use of a hoarding program to buy merchandise a Class C infraction, and makes selling, buying or distributing a hoarding program a Class C infraction. It imposes no duty to make, keep or produce a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
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, with no separate exceeds-authority prong. The same article separately punishes, at section 35-43-1-8, knowing and intentional unauthorized disruption or denial of computer system services.
When LexLint raises it
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