Internet users would be better served if FIPR focused on the benefits of the online technologies available today rather than undermine the online privacy debate and block technological progress.
Online technologies have made us question lots of assumptions.
"Unlike in, say, music or publishing, there hasn't been any revolution caused by these new online technologies.
Activist investors are testing online technologies to reach out to small shareholders, find potential allies and coordinate proxy votes.
It was Mark Ghuneim, senior vice president for online technologies at Sony's Columbia Records Group, who is credited with coining the phrase music digitals a few years ago.
Bertelsmann sold its interests in AOL and AOL Europe and turned to investing in other online technologies, specifically the Internet file-sharing company Napster.
And he predicts, again correctly, that "the online technologies are likely to move the needle further and faster in that direction".
Internet use among the 3.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has quadrupled to at least 8percentt in three years, according to the Palestinian chapter of the Internet Society, an international group that promotes online technologies.
It is also a technology story, with superb BBC research and development contributing for example to digital broadcasting, to the computer games industry through the impact of the BBC Micro, and increasingly to online technologies.
Mr. Gregory, 33, is the program director at Witness, a human rights organization in Brooklyn founded by the musician Peter Gabriel that trains staff at like-minded groups to use video and online technologies in campaign presentations.
What really fires me up at the moment, however, is the Guardian Membership and Live projects, which are creating a physical space of civil encounter by using online technologies and offline locations.
