Police in California have been accused of breaking the state’s journalist shield law. On Sunday, officers seized computers belonging to Jason Chen, the editor of technology blog Gizmodo, which released details of Apple’s latest iPhone. State law prohibits the confiscation of journalists’ property in order to discover their sources.  But prosecutors are considering charging Chen and the person who sold him the iPhone under a law that prohibits the sale of stolen goods and the use of stolen property. Chen paid a middleman $5000 for a prototype of the device, which was left in a California bar by an Apple employee.