Online Chatter, Apple Goes to Court
posted by:Jennifer Manning // 05:31 PM // March 21, 2005 // Digital Democracy: law, policy and politics
The NY Times reports that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has chosen to sue several websites that traffic in Apple news in an effort to determine if his employees are leaking product information.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled earlier this month that three operators of independent Web sites devoted to publishing information about Apple must divulge their confidential sources to the company.
Apple said that it was seeking the source of information it claims is protected under trade secret law. That ruling is being appealed by EFF.
In a separate case, Apple charged Nicholas M. Ciarelli, the Harvard freshman who operates the Web site Think Secret, with illegally attempting to induce Apple employees to violate their confidentiality agreements with the company.
