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4 campaigns on this issue

National Legal and Policy Center at Microsoft Corporation
National Legal and Policy Center · Microsoft · 2025 · Voted on as Proposal 7 at the annual meeting of 5 December 2025. Not approved: 683,895,858 votes for, 4,435,809,588 against, 63,749,211 abstaining and 1,137,975,835 broker non-votes. Microsoft reported this as 13.36% support, which is the share of the votes cast for and against. It was the second year running that the National Legal and Policy Center had put the proposal to Microsoft shareholders.
Investor Alliance for Human Rights (coalition statement) at Amazon, Apple, X, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, Samsung, Kakao, VK, and Yandex (14 companies)
Investor Alliance for Human Rights · Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. · 2025 · Not a shareholder vote, so there is no vote result. The statement responded to the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Index, which scored 14 companies and found that for the third time no company scored above 50%. Two companies' scores fell, X most sharply in the index's history, and Microsoft took the top place without having improved its score since 2022.
Mercy Investment Services at Meta Platforms
Mercy Investment Services · Meta Platforms · 2023 · Voted on as Proposal Five at the annual meeting on May 31, 2023 and not approved. Meta's Form 8-K reports 845,051,262 votes for, 4,119,907,712 against, 70,270,779 abstaining and 223,805,267 broker non-votes. That is 17.02 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 16.78 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
Harrington Investments at Amazon
Harrington Investments, Inc. · Amazon.com Inc. · 2019 · 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.

Organizations working on this

American Civil Liberties Union

Files shareholder proposals through an affiliate. The ACLU of Northern California filed shareholder proposals at AT&T and Verizon in 2013 calling on both to publish transparency reports showing how often and what kind of customer information they hand to US and foreign governments, filing, in the ACLU's words, as customers, shareholders and citizens, alongside institutional investors including the New York State Common Retirement Fund and Trillium Asset Management. The national organization has separately campaigned publicly for shareholder support on proposals filed by others.

Amnesty International

Directs advocacy at investors rather than filing resolutions: it published letters to pension funds about their exposure to NSO Group spyware, and has called on venture capital firms to carry out human rights due diligence.

Arjuna Capital

Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 9 companies, among them Citigroup and Microsoft between 2018 and 2023.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A digital rights nonprofit that runs public campaigns pressing technology companies to protect users, including a campaign calling on major platforms to turn on end-to-end encryption by default.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

The coalition at the center of faith-based shareholder advocacy in the United States for over fifty years, coordinating member institutions' engagements and resolutions.

Investor Alliance for Human Rights

Signs on to shareholder campaigns other investors lead. It has signed on at 14 companies, among them Amazon and Yandex in 2025.

Jubitz Family Foundation

Files in its own name as a shareholder. A shareholder proposal submitted by the foundation appeared in Axon Enterprise's 2023 annual meeting materials, urging shareholders to vote to discontinue development of TASER-armed surveillance drones and arguing that the program risked harming children psychologically and physically and exposed the company to litigation and reputational damage. This is a grant-making foundation using its own stock holdings to file, which is different from a foundation that funds other organizations' shareholder advocacy.

Office of the New York State Comptroller and the New York State Common Retirement Fund

Files shareholder resolutions in its own name.

Open MIC

Files shareholder proposals as the primary filer and organizes other investors to do the same. Its 2024 proposals at Meta and Alphabet, asking each to report annually on risks from generative AI and its role in spreading false information, were filed by Open MIC with Arjuna Capital and Eko as co-filers, and drew 56.3 per cent and 45.7 per cent of the independent shareholder vote. It also states that it engages shareholders to identify strategies and coordinates them to file proposals for annual meetings.

Proxy Impact

Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Meta Platforms and Meta between 2020 and 2023.

Ranking Digital Rights

Does not file or co-file resolutions. It supplies the research others use in the proxy process and publishes guidance aimed at investors: an Investor Guidance section, an investor update setting out what shareholders should look for when assessing how technology companies handle digital rights risk, and a public table of digital rights shareholder resolutions filed at US companies from 2019 onward, each mapped to the RDR Index indicators that support it.

Trillium Asset Management

Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 12 companies, among them CVS Health and Bright Horizons Family Solutions between 2022 and 2026.