Today, the Supreme Court will hear a case about an old hacking law from the 1980s. Interpreted the wrong way, this law — the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — threatens journalism you love.

I mean, who wants to know *less* about the technology that shapes everything we do online? The power of reporting lies in our devotion to hard facts. This was true in the days of Ms. Ida B Wells-Barnett, and it’s true now.

These days, we just have more tools to collect facts — and for data journalists, that means “scraping” data from websites that we all use.