I think that just further shows your worldview that defaults to information/data as property. I think this is wrong both in the sense that it isn't really what the law says (but aren't going to agree here anyway) but more importantly I think what it should say. Information should not be and is not property by default. There are only three specific ways in which it can become property ("intellectual property"): copyright, trademark and patent. If it's none of those then the government doesn't get to make any rules about how anyone deals in the data because of the 1st Amendment. That's my understanding of the US system at least.