Court rules: Online reporters must reveal sources to Apple

A Californian court has decided that the online journalists who posted stories that violated trade secrets from Apple will need to reveal the sources that provided them with the information.

Judge James Kleinberg, while ruling that a journalist’s privilege is not ‘absolute’, said that he felt no need to determine if those working for online news sites were journalists because journalists were not allowed to illegally publish trade secrets.

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