Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 19th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Courts have reaffirmed the right to scrape the public facing web.

We have some hints about how the Twitter edit button might work,

updates on the whole Twitter and Elon situation.

Microsoft wants to bring in-game ads to Xbox and a new startup accelerator

you're gonna want to put on your radar. Here's what you miss today in the world

of tech.

Weird one to lead off with today, but it is an important legal ruling that basically

affirms the internet as we know it. A U.S. appeals court has ruled that scraping publicly accessible content on the

Internet is legal, thereby ending a landmark case that LinkedIn brought against a rival,

quoting Tech Crunch.

The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal

battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from users public profiles.

The case reached the US Supreme Court last year but was sent back to the Ninth Circuit

for the original Appeals Court to re-review the case.

In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit

reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly

accessible on the Internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or C.FAA, which governs what constitutes

computer hacking under U.S. law.

The Ninth Circuit's decision is a major win for archivists, academics, researchers, and journalists who use tools to

mass collect or scrape information that is publicly accessible on the internet.

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