Apple Stops Witch Hunt for Employee Leaks

Authored by Jay Baage on July 14, 2006 - 7:39am.

Apple has decided to end its legal fight to make bloggers reveal who leaked secret information about its new products.

BBC News reports that Apple has decided not to contest an appeal court ruling which gave net journalists the same protections as traditional media counterparts.

The company had earlier argued that the only way that someone could have passed on the information, which included detailed drawings, was by breaking a confidentiality agreement.

Legal action began against a company called NFox.com in 2004, after details of an audio breakout box, code-named Asteroid, appeared online. NFox provided e-mail services to one of several Apple-watching blogs. In the lawsuit Apple also tried to make the blogs, Apple Insider and Power Page, reveal their sources.

According to BBC News, a separate trade secrets lawsuit that Apple filed against another site - Think Secret - has yet to be resolved.  

Related Links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm

www.appleinsider.com

www.powerpage .org

www.thinksecret .com