shareholder proposal · 2019
Harrington Investments, Inc. at Amazon
Commission an independent study of whether Rekognition facial-recognition technology threatens or violates civil rights and disproportionately targets communities of color, immigrants and activists.
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What happened
Result: Rejected at the May 22, 2019 annual meeting: 94,208,150 for, 239,591,730 against, 8,203,512 abstaining and 85,151,704 broker non-votes, so about 28 percent of the shares voted for or against it were in favour.
we found no documented change to Amazon's Rekognition sales policy that sources attribute to this vote.
Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition sale ban to governments, TechCrunch
Who is involved
- Harrington Investments, Inc. filer
- Amazon.com Inc. company
What this campaign is about
- Equality before the law and equal protection Necessary · Universal Declaration of Human Rights