Previous Campaigns

alphabet Inc.
stock: GOOG
CEO: Larry Page
HQ: mountain view, california
Subsidiaries: google, youtube, waymo, sidewalk labs

Open MIC has supported shareholders in filing shareholder resolutions at Alphabet on a range of issues impacting the company. Open MIC has led a multi-year campaign to improve content governance on the company’s platforms (YouTube, Google, Google Ads, Google Plus, etc.) as misinformation and hate speech proliferate online and are linked to human and civil rights risks offline. Open MIC has also been working with shareholders to ensure that Alphabet upholds a commitment to human rights and free expression for all its users, regardless of where they live, and especially as the company considers expansion into new markets where human rights concerns and issues of censorship and surveillance pose significant risk. Most recently, Open MIC has supported shareholders in filing a resolution pertaining to the reported development of a censored search tool aimed at the Chinese market.

📂 2019 Proposal — Google Search in China
📂 2018 Proposal — Content Governance
📂 2017 Proposal — “Fake News”

amazon.com, inc
stock: amzn
ceo: jeff bezos
HQ: seattle, washington
subsidiaries: Audible, zappos, abebooks.com, souq.com

In 2018, Open MIC initiated new investor-led efforts at Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud service provider, and a company whose business impacts almost every sector. Currently, Open MIC is leading a shareholder campaign calling for the restriction of sales of facial recognition software to government and law enforcement agencies, citing privacy, civil and human rights concerns. Given Amazon’s growing list of acquisitions in artificial intelligence technologies, investors are prepared for a long-term engagement at Amazon on issues of privacy, surveillance, and human rights risk posed by the sale of unregulated tech products and services to government customers.

📂 2019 Proposal — Risk of Sales of Facial Recognition Software

facebook, Inc
Stock: FB
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
HQ: menlo park, california
Subsidiaries: Instagram, whatsapp inc., oculus vr

Open MIC has supported shareholders in extensive engagements at Facebook as the company faces ongoing public controversy, loss of consumer trust and regulatory risk around issues of content management, corporate governance, and risk oversight. In 2018, after shareholders asked the company to issue a report discussing the merits of a Risk Oversight Board Committee, Facebook made substantial changes to a Board-level committee, broadening its mission to include oversight of issues that have placed the social media platform at the center of global controversy, including privacy, data use, community safety and cybersecurity.

📂 2019 Proposal — Independent Board Chairman
📂 2018 Proposal — Content Governance
📂 2018 Proposal — Risk Oversight Committee
📂 2018 Proposal — Open Letter