Legal Trend. State Data Trespass Laws. 4 Quick Bits Informed Intel.

What is a data trespass law? While it sounds like data security, these laws create a crime against physically entering land to acquire data like pollution or animal cruetly.

Are data trespass laws constititional? Maybe not. A Federal Appeals court has found a Wyoming law likely violates the 1st Amendment.

Who is for these laws? Land owners, members of the Farm Bureau

Who is against these laws? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Center for Food Safety, National Press Photographers Association

Casper Star Tribune | Denver court rules against Wyoming data trespass law