Date:

9 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Company Response

Amazon provided a response concerning surveillance technology violating privacy rights, transparency on content governance for the Amazon.com e-commerce platform, warehouse workers' rights, union rights, gender and racial pay gaps and animal welfare standards.

Date:

9 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Company Response

Alphabet did not respond to requests for information about the shareholder proposals that raised human rights concerns.

Date:

6 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Article

Meta shareholders voted on Proposal 7 at the Meta Annual General Meeting on May 31. As per the preliminary voting results, Proposal 7 did not garner enough support from the shareholders and thus, the outcome was not in its favour. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg along with other members of senior management own a majority of voting shares, resulting in an imbalance of power amongst shareholders.

Date:

1 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Company Response

Meta responds to concerns about government takedown requests, the dual-class capital structure, targeted advertising, lobbying, content management biases, reproductive rights and data privacy, child safety, lobbying, etc.

Date:

25 May 2023

Content Type:

Article

Heading into big tech’s 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) season, there are a number of shareholder proposals pushing for tech sector accountability related to human rights harms. Access Now reviewed shareholder proposals for Amazon, Alphabet and Meta.

Date:

24 May 2023

Content Type:

Article

Amazon.com investors voted against all 18 shareholder-led proposals during the 2023 annual general meeting. Shareholder proposals pushed for action concerning warehouse workers rights, union rights, gender and racial pay, amongst other human rights issues.

Date:

23 Mar 2023

Content Type:

Article

The Council on Ethics of the Swedish AP Funds (AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4) have organised a group of institutional investors with EUR 7 trillion in combined assets under management to collaboratively engage tech giants with the aim to strengthen their management of human rights risks and impacts.