Electronic Frontier Foundation Appeals Apple Ruling

The EFF has appealed the lower court ruling in California that approves Apple's subpoena of certain web site writers.

Apple wants to know who has been disclosing information they say are trade secrets about a new Apple product called Asteroid. The information was on a news site called PowerPage.org. The EFF says the writers and their sources should be protected under the First Amendment and California's journalistic shield law.

Apple subpoened Nfox, the ISP for PowePage, for information about e-mails sent using Nfox.

The Superior Court judge rules that the information were trade secrets, regardless of whether the writers were journalists or not.