| Subject: NLG Launches hotline, website for victims of the 'nerdscare' |
| From: Gráinne O'Neill <grainne@gmail.com> |
| Date: 8/1/11, 10:21 |
| To: undisclosed-recipients:; |
| BCC: barriticus@gmail.com |
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE, August 1, 2011
Contact: Jamie
Munro, 212-679-5100 x12, membership@nlg.org
New York: The National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
provides legal defense and educational resources to activists who are being
targeted as part of the Nerd Scare, including individuals alleged to be
affiliated with Anonymous, LulzSec, and other activists and hacker
collectives.
The NLG has launched a website, www.anonlg.com, with Know Your Rights information tailored to individuals subjected to recent U.S. Department of Justice arrests, searches, seizures, harassment, and grand jury subpoenas as part of the FBIs Cyber Crimes operations. Activists who have already been targeted or are concerned about their safety may call a Guild hotline888-NLG-DANKor access the organization by email at help@anonlg.com.
National Lawyers
Guild lawyers, in their continuing efforts to protect the right to dissent, are
coordinating legal defense for many of these activists.
The Defense
Department's plan to treat cyberspace as an operational domain, equipping
forces for cyber missions, virtually guarantees that computer activists will
face increasing government scrutiny. Anonlg.com provides Know Your Rights
information for those with advanced computer skills who lack experience dealing
with the FBI," said Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the National
Lawyers Guild.
The NLG advises anyone visited by the FBI to assert the right not to answer any questions, to get the agents business card and to state clearly and unequivocally that they will have an attorney contact the agent on their behalf.
The National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937, is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. Its headquarters are in New York and it has chapters in every state.