Here is a comprehensive list of the ER committee's work and range of interests:

This committee studies the following types of phenomena, products, and services.  It studies their benefits and drawbacks.  It studies their effect on citizens' available options, total costs (money, time, effort), personal safety, and mental conditioning.  It especially studies their effect on citizens' rights, freedoms, security, and privacy, on the Internet and in telecommunications in general:

• Telemarketing, spam, spyware, targetted and untargetted advertising on websites.  Also, to a lesser extent, broadcast advertising.
• Computerized tracking of prospects, customers, and users by merchants and by providers, especially online.
• Malware, back doors, and unintended vulnerabilities.  Attackers and intruders.  Exploits, penetration tools, rootkits, botnets.  Attacks on personal systems via the Internet and via other transmission vectors.  Hijacking of electronic systems, tapping of communications.
• Phishing, social engineering, identity theft, other fraud, monetary theft, electronic property theft, and other crime, whether online or via other electronic communication channels.

• Open data, crowdsourced data, disinformation, journalistic freedom and integrity, online and in broadcast media.
• Encroachment by private interests on access to public information.

• Copyright laws, licensing terms, software patent laws, and other intellectual property laws.
• Restrictions, legislated or implemented in hardware or software, on accessing, distributing, or filtering textual information, media content, software, and advertising.
• Restrictions, legislated or implemented in hardware or software, on using and configuring one's personal hardware and software.

• Available implementations of:
  • computer and network software.
  • computer and network hardware.
  • consumer electronics.

• Available choices of libre computer software (aka free software) and open hardware.
• Available choices of physical equipment and software tools for:
  • personal communications (like email, SMS, telephone, and Skype).
  • public communications (like newsgroups, chatrooms, and social media).
  • disseminating textual information, media content, and computer software (like BitTorrent).

• Available choices for Internet access, for other electronic communications, and for online services.  Particularly as influenced by government, by industry, and by systemic issues.

Specific tasks are assigned to this committee by TFN's board of directors, typically at the committee's own suggestion.  Such assignments can include work such as:

• Monitor and act upon activity by government and by other actors.
• Research a societal problem caused by a technology, develop a proposal for a TFN strategy that would mitigate the risk, and prepare briefs for TFN officers, for the board, and for the TFN General Meeting.
• Study past, current, and future legislation, at the provincial, national, foreign national, and international levels.  Develop a proposal for TFN policy or for government legislation.
• Prepare a TFN submission to government, regulatory authorities, and/or other NGOs.

• Develop educational, operational, and monitoring resources to benefit the community in accordance with TFN's mission.
• Study a technology, technique, or security flaw.  Produce a detailed report for internal analysis and training.  Develop equipment or software appropriate for helping and protecting TFN members.  Develop policy and best practices for TFN's technical support staff.
• Prepare and deliver demonstrations and courses on free software and on techniques that mitigate risks and improve access.

• Encourage and support, within TFN and beyond, viewpoints and technologies that align with TFN's mission and that benefit the community.
• Promote TFN's position to the public.  Prepare news releases.
• Organize citizen activism in the form of petitions and letter-writing campaigns.

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