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<p>2026 </p>
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<p>Human Rights & Worker Rights </p>
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<p>AI / Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Harm, Misinformation/Disinformation </p>
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<p>Whereas: Generative AI is central to Google’s business, with Gemini, Gemma, Veo 3, and<br>Nano Banana models integrated across the company’s offerings. Google’s AI Overviews have<br>two billion monthly users,1 with many users relying on Overviews instead of clicking on<br>traditional search links.2 In October 2025, Alphabet reported record quarterly revenue, with CEO<br>Pichai saying, “We’re seeing AI now driving real business results across the company.”3<br><br>Yet generative AI is prone to falsehoods. Google has acknowledged that so-called<br>“hallucinations” are “a problem for all large language models across the industry.”4 NewsGuard,<br>which assesses information reliability, found Gemini “spreads false claims” nearly 17% of the<br>time.5 Model accuracy can also be impacted by bad training data6 and efforts to “poison” models<br>by bad actors.7<br><br>Shareholders are concerned that Google generative AI produces falsehoods that cause real<br>world harm and engender legal, regulatory, financial, and reputational risks to Alphabet.<br>Ultimately, the proliferation of AI related falsehoods is creating a larger problem for society, what<br>has been called “epistemic collapse” – a world in which users are increasingly unable to discern<br>what is true or authentic.<br><br>Google has been sued in Delaware,8 Washington DC,9 Minnesota,10 and Brazil11 for harms<br>allegedly incurred as a result of falsehoods produced by Google’s generative AI.<br><br>Google’s generative AI models have stirred controversy that could threaten its business; in<br>October 2025, the Gemma model was removed from Google’s AI Studio platform after a U.S. senator alleged that it fabricated “serious criminal allegations” about her. Amidst widespread<br>media coverage, the senator advised Google: “Shut it down until you can control it.”12<br><br>Google’s Veo 3 – which can generate hyperrealistic video depicting misleading information –<br>has been integrated into YouTube Shorts; a PC Magazine reviewer says it “has the potential to<br>create disinformation on a catastrophic scale.” NewsGuard says Google’s Nano Banana Pro is<br>a “misinformation superspreader” that advanced false claims about politicians, public health<br>topics, and top brands 100 percent of the time when prompted to do so.13<br><br>While Google’s policy guidelines aim to prohibit generative AI from producing harmful factual<br>inaccuracies, shareholders question whether they are sufficiently effective at mitigating risks to<br>the company amidst a proliferation of lawsuits and new regulation regarding generative AI.14<br>Without policies and practices that minimize generative AI falsehoods, there is considerable risk<br>to Alphabet, and an “existential threat”15 to generative AI technology itself.</p>
<p>Resolved: Shareholders request that the Board commission a third-party assessment, at<br>reasonable expense, of additional actions the company could take to mitigate the proliferation of<br>false information on the platform and report to shareholders, omitting proprietary or privileged<br>information, with a summary of the outcome of the assessment. At board and management’s<br>discretion, the report may include additional uses of human, algorithmic, whistleblower or other<br>methods to more promptly detect and eliminate false information and prevent its elevation and<br>dissemination.</p>
<p>1https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/googles-ai-overviews-have-2b-monthly-users-ai-mode-100m-in-theus-<br>and-india/<br>2https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-whenan-<br>ai-summary-appears-in-theresults/#:~:<br>text=Google%20users%20who%20encounter%20an,are%20Wikipedia%2C%20YouTube%20<br>and%20Reddit.<br>3 https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/google-hits-historic-100b-quarter-as-ai-drives-growth-explosion<br>4 https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26219988/blackburngoogle.pdf<br>5https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsguard-one-year-ai-audit-progress-report-finds-that-aimodels-<br>spread-falsehoods-in-the-news-35-of-the-time/<br>6https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/04/google-meta-efamation-ai-generated-responsesaustralia<br>7https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/04/google-meta-efamation-ai-generated-responsesaustralia<br>8abajournal.com/news/article/suit-says-google-spread-radioactive-lies-against-conservative-activistthrough-<br>ai-platforms<br>9https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/rolling-stone-billboard-owner-penskesues-<br>google-over-ai-overviews-2025-09-14/<br>10 https://futurism.com/company-sues-google-ai-overviews<br>11https://valorinternational.globo.com/law/news/2025/06/06/court-orders-google-to-pay-damages-for-aigenerated-misinformation.ghtml<br>12 https://www.theverge.com/news/812376/google-removes-gemma-senator-blackburn-hallucination<br>13https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/google-new-ai-image-generator-misinformationsuperspreader?<br>utm_source=substack&publication_id=2106147&post_id=180625003&utm_medium=emai<br>l&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=emailshare&<br>triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=wcq9&triedRedirect=true<br>14 https://roninlegalconsulting.com/ai-generated-defamation-and-legal-liability-a-closer-look/ ;<br>https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/business-law-today/2025-august/recentdevelopments-<br>artificial-intelligence-cases-legislation/ ; https://www.bakerlaw.com/services/artificialintelligence-<br>ai/case-tracker-artificial-intelligence-copyrights-and-class-actions/ ;<br>https://sustainabletechpartner.com/topics/ai/generative-ai-lawsuit-timeline/<br>15 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/google-ai-overview-libel/678751/</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Tatiana Parrott</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Vancity Investment Management</span></div>
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<p>Executive Compensation </p>
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<p><strong>RESOLVED</strong>: Shareholders ask Alphabet (GOOGL) to initiate an annual vote on whether GOOGL should subject its executive pay to an annual shareholder vote. Currently GOOGL conducts such a vote once in 3-years.</p>
<p><strong>SUPPORTING STATEMENT</strong>: </p>
<p dir=”ltr”>This annual vote shall also include that the GOOGL EDGAR reporting of the vote on this new proposal include that GOOGL shall also report separately the voting results from non-insider GOOGL shares. </p>
<p dir=”ltr”>It is import to disclose the votes of the non-insider GOOGL shares on this important matter because GOOGL insiders Larry Page and Sergey Brin own less than 12% of the value of GOOGL stock yet control 51% of the voting power.</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>The current reporting of the GOOGL voting results is somewhat meaningless because GOOGL insiders have the power to always obtain a majority in favor in spite of owning less than 12% of the value of GOOGL stock.</p>

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<p>AI / Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy/Surveillance/Cyber Security </p>
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<p><strong>RESOLVED</strong>, Shareholders request the Board of Directors of Alphabet, Inc. (“Alphabet”) to update the Audit Committee (the “Committee”) Charter to provide formal oversight on the responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and AI-related risks that may impact the human rights of users and other stakeholders, including reviewing and discussing with the full Board matters deemed by the Committee to be significant on Alphabet’s AI strategies, policies and initiatives; public policy and regulatory risks pertaining to AI; and implementation of Alphabet’s policies governing the development and deployment of AI.</p>
<p><strong>Supporting Statement:</strong><br>Alphabet has committed to “expanding [its] investment in AI across the entire company,” investing more than $75 billion in capital expenditures to advance AI development across the business in 2025 alone.<br>In October 2025, Alphabet amended its Audit Committee Charter (“Charter”) and Risk and Compliance Committee Charter to remove oversight of civil and human rights, which was formally integrated in 2020. As the company ramps up its investment in AI, this rollback leaves an accountability gap around responsible AI governance addressing human rights risks. The fast pace of investments and implementation of AI in the coming years warrants the board’s attention to these issues. The development and deployment of AI may create new unforeseen risks to the human rights of billions of users and stakeholders or exacerbate existing risks, thus increasing Alphabet’s risk exposure. At present, the Charter is unclear as to whether the board formally oversees material AI-related risk and implementation of its responsible AI policies.<br><br>Alphabet acknowledged that its “evolving AI-related efforts may give rise to risks related to harmful content, inaccuracies, discrimination, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, violation of rights of publicity, defamation, data privacy, cybersecurity, and other issues […] [Its] implementation of AI systems could subject [Alphabet] to competitive harm, regulatory action, legal liability”.<br><br>Oversight of AI vested in the Committee would ensure that the Board has the specialized expertise and dedicated focus needed to evaluate the risks, opportunities and compliance obligations unique to the AI systems that Alphabet develops and deploys. This is an increasingly common practice in the industry and is aligned with peers such as Microsoft, eBay, Cisco, and Comcast, which have assigned the oversight on AI, responsible AI, or AI-related risks to at least one Board committee.<br><br>Poor AI governance may lead to greater risk exposure and may in turn cost more to address any necessary changes. As illustrated by a recent derivative lawsuit settlement between shareholders and Alphabet, unaddressed vulnerabilities in AI governance systems may eventually lead to costly and resource-intensive interventions, whether they result from regulatory enforcement, litigation, or voluntary reforms. Proactive and effective AI governance aligning with best practice would reduce the likelihood of the risk to materialize and the scale of eventual remedy costs.<br><br>Formalizing AI oversight in the Charter is therefore a sound corporate governance exercise that would assure shareholders that the Board oversees material risks related to the development and deployment of responsible AI within Alphabet’s long-term growth strategy.</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Juana Lee</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE)</span></div>
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<p>AI / Artificial Intelligence, One Vote Per Share, Worker Rights, Health & Safety </p>
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<p><strong>RESOLVED</strong>: Shareholders request that our Board take all practicable steps in its control to initiate and adopt a recapitalization plan for all outstanding stock to have one vote per share. We recommend that this be done through a phase-out process in which the board would, within seven years or other timeframe justified by the board, establish fair and appropriate mechanisms to effectuate such recapitalization plan. This is not intended to limit our Board’s discretion in crafting the requested change in accordance with applicable laws and existing contracts.</p>
<p>SUPPORTING STATEMENT:<br>In Alphabet’s multi-class voting structure, Class B stock has 10 times the voting rights of Class A. As a result, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin currently control 52% of our company’s total voting power while owning less than 11% of outstanding voting stock1, and will continue to retain voting control even though they have stepped down from leading the company.<br><br>Due to this voting structure, our company takes public shareholder money but refuses shareholders an equal voice in the company’s management. For example, it was primarily the weight of the insiders’ 10 votes per share that permitted the creation of a non-voting class of stock (class C) despite shareholders voting to oppose the move.2<br><br>Shareholders note that directly employed Google workers are partially compensated in Class C stock. Google’s compensation philosophy states that “Googlers should share the success of the company,” but without voting rights, these employee-shareholders cannot exercise oversight of executives. Google’s global workforce is reportedly more than 50% temporary workers, contractors or vendor employees yet these workers have even less say over their indirect employer’s actions, and are subject to increasingly alarming treatment.3 A survey of U.S. data workers powering AI showed that 86% worry about meeting basic financial responsibilities and only 30% are paid for downtime between tasks, even as their labor underpins the very systems that drive the company’s growth.4<br><br>Corporate governance experts overwhelmingly illustrate a growing concern about multi-class share structures. The Council for Institutional Investors (CII) recommends a seven-year phase-out of dual class share offerings, and the International Corporate Governance Network supports CII’s recommendation.<br> </p>
<p>Outside shareholders overwhelmingly support this proposal, with 98% backing in 20255. By adopting this change, the Board can strengthen governance, improve accountability, and protect long-term shareholder value.<br><br>Shareholders are encouraged to vote FOR this good governance request to allow better shareholder oversight.<br> </p>
<p>1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204425000014/goog-20241231.htm<br>2 https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hblr//wp-content/uploads/sites/87/2015/06/HBLR-5.2-Lee-Protecting-Public-Shareholders.pdf<br>3 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html<br>4 https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine#cite16<br>5 Excluding Class B votes and using share counts from company proxy and 10-K implies that 98% of unaffiliated Class A votes supported the proposal. See Alphabet Inc., Form 8-K (June 12, 2025); DEF 14A (Apr. 25, 2025); Form 10-K (Feb. 4, 2025).</p>

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<p>Climate Change, Data Centers, GHG Reduction and Targets </p>
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<p>Whereas: Climate change-driven impacts could erase trillions in global GDP by 2050, posing macroeconomic risks that may substantively depress returns for long-term diversified investors.[1],[2]</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is compounding these risks. Despite the promise of AI to unlock efficiencies and unparalleled innovation, data centers that power AI are highly energy-intensive. Because 60% of U.S. electricity comes from high-emitting sources, their growth is accelerating carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).[3]</p>
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<p>The U.S. Department of Energy forecasts that data centers will consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of the country’s electricity by 2028,[4] and projections for data center power draw are climbing. In December 2025, BloombergNEF raised its forecast for U. S. data center power demand – made only 7 months earlier – by 36%, from 78 to 106 GW.[5]</p>
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<p>Alphabet has been a recognized leader in addressing climate change and has set two important goals for 2030: matching 100% of its global electricity demand with 24/7 carbon-free energy and reducing its operational and value chain GHG emissions by 50% from a 2019 baseline. However, its carbon footprint is rapidly expanding. By 2024, Alphabet’s total emissions had increased by 51% over its 2019 baseline. </p>
<p>Alphabet identifies the growing demand for its digital services, including AI, as “putting pressure on the amount of power that [it] need[s],” and acknowledges facing challenges and complexities in meeting its climate commitments.[6]</p>
<p>Although the company continues to demonstrate leadership in developing clean energy, including geothermal and nuclear power, investors remain in the dark about the full scope, scale, and timelines of these projects and thus, the likelihood of Alphabet meeting its 2030 goals. Investors would benefit from enhanced disclosure, including, for example:</p>
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Contingency plans, including scenario analyses, that evaluate factors that could negatively impact the company’s emissions reduction progress.[7]
A stress test of Alphabet’s strategies for achieving its 2030 goals, assessing factors over which it has direct and indirect control.[8]
The company’s anticipated emissions pathways to 2030 compared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s low- and no-overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius-aligned pathways.[9]
Estimated metric tons of carbon removal required to compensate for Alphabet’s residual emissions. 

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<p>By providing additional transparency on its decarbonization planning, Alphabet could assure investors that it is prepared to meet its climate goals, thereby mitigating climate-related risks and upholding its reputation as a climate leader.</p>
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<p><strong>Resolved: </strong>Shareholders request that Alphabet publish a report, at reasonable cost, within a reasonable time, and excluding confidential or proprietary information, explaining how it will meet the climate change-related commitments it has made on GHGs, given the massively growing energy demand from artificial intelligence and data centers that Alphabet is planning to build.</p>
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<p>[1] https://wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/core/bitstreams/651283eb-02f3-4b6c-ac85-3f4a8485d0aa/content</p>
<p>[2] https://www.esgdive.com/news/climate-related-financial-risk-to-more-than-triple-by-2050-lseg/803381/</p>
<p>[3] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3</p>
<p>[4] https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-new-report-evaluating-increase-electricity-demand-data-centers</p>
<p>[5] https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/ai-and-the-power-grid-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road/</p>
<p>[6] https://abc.xyz/investor/events/event-details/2025/Alphabets-Data-Center-Energy-Strategy-Call–2025-8CMCLdf62b/default.aspx</p>
<p>[7] https://www.ball.com/getmedia/c40fe912-662a-4ce1-9cef-e1c3f96822a0/Ball-Climate-Transition-Plan-FINAL-March-2023.pdf#page=13</p>
<p>[8] https://www.ball.com/getmedia/c40fe912-662a-4ce1-9cef-e1c3f96822a0/Ball-Climate-Transition-Plan-FINAL-March-2023.pdf#page=58</p>
<p>[9] https://www.unepfi.org/themes/climate-change/recommendations-for-policy-makers-on-net-zero-action-aligning-commitments-with-science-based-no-low-overshoot-1-5-c-scenarios/</p>

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<p>Studies show the presence of H-1B workers in a company boosts innovation, patents, and productivity.[1] For every temporary foreign worker employed by a U.S. firm, studies show that 5 to 7.5 new domestic jobs are created, and that those on H-1B visas obtain a disproportionate number of high quality patents.[2] Alphabet was one of the top 10 sponsors of H-1B worker visas in the fiscal year 2025, employing over 4,000 workers with the visa.[3] In September 2025, President Trump issued a proclamation raising the annual fee for skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas from $215 to $100,000.[4] The Company has not disclosed to shareholders how it plans to either move forward without these skilled workers or plan to bear the economic strain from the new fees.</p>
<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the world and the technology landscape. Alphabet’s capital expenditures for 2025, which are driven largely by investment in AI technology and services, are expected to reach up to $93 billion, nearly double those reported in 2024.[5] These investments have been highly successful for Alphabet. The release of the Gemini 3 AI model and Google’s custom AI chip was met with praise from consumers and increased share value.[6] </p>
<p>Immigrant talent has been crucial to success of AI development at Alphabet. The Google paper Attention Is All You Need is considered foundational to today’s generative AI products.[7] Of its eight authors, six were born outside the United States.[8] In 2024, Google filed a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor stating that immigration policies were limiting its ability to hire top global AI talent and that the Company expected the demand for AI roles to increase significantly going forward.[9]</p>
<p>Additionally, changes to student visa policies in 2025 led to a 17% decline in new international students studying in the U.S. in the fall semester of 2025.[10] More than 50% of computer scientists with graduate degrees and nearly 70% of current graduate students in the U.S. were born abroad.[11] Concerns have been raised that current U.S. immigration policies will lead to “brain drain,” an inability to recruit or retain global talent.[12] This is particularly relevant in the field of AI, where foreign countries and companies are eager to catch up with Alphabet’s lead in the AI race.[13]</p>
<p>We urge shareholders to vote FOR this proposal.</p>
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<p>[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/dont-ban-h-1b-workers-they-are-worth-their-weight-patents</p>
<p>[2] https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/attracting-global-talent-ensure-america-first-innovation</p>
<p>[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-visa-tech-foreign-governments.html</p>
<p>[4] https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/business/h-1b-fee-trump-immigration-workers</p>
<p>[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp2y8rdpro</p>
<p>[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/the-stock-market-believes-google-is-now-winning-the-ai-race-over-openai-nvidia.html</p>
<p>[7] https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/china-emerges-as-only-real-rival-to-us-in-global-ai-race/</p>
<p>[8] https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/china-emerges-as-only-real-rival-to-us-in-global-ai-race/</p>
<p>[9] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-requests-update-immigration-rules-hire-top-ai-talent-2024-5</p>
<p>[10] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/international-student-enrollment-decline.html?msockid=0cc029ed1acd634306ad3f651b2b622f</p>
<p>[11] https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET_US_AI_Workforce.pdf</p>
<p>[12] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-hostility-to-legal-immigration-harms-americas-global-leadership-in-innovation/</p>
<p>[13] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-foreign-worker-restrictions-h1b-visa-foreign-talent-recruitment-2025-9#china-5</p>

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<p><strong>RESOLVED</strong>: Shareholders request the Board of Directors issue public reporting, prepared at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, assessing operational, reputational, regulatory and legal risks to Alphabet, Inc. (the Company) arising from gaps in the Company’s policies, controls, and oversight systems of customer and user data processed through Google Services and Google Cloud. The report should evaluate how governance gaps could lead Google’s products, infrastructure, or cloud services to facilitate surveillance, censorship, profiling, and targeting in contexts of governmental overreach and recommend risk-mitigation measures.<br><br>Alphabet’s business model depends heavily on the processing and storage of user and enterprise customer data across Google Services and Google Cloud. When customers misuse Google products, or when the Company’s own data-governance practices contradict their terms of service, Alphabet risk exposure includes:<br><br>● Operational risk when misuse triggers regulatory intervention, including mandated tool restrictions, audits, or requirements to modify or localize cloud infrastructure. For example, Google settled a lawsuit in 2023 alleging that the Company collected personal information from users browsing with Chrome’s “incognito mode.”1<br>● Reputational risks tied to data access and misuse in jurisdictions with expansive government access to personal data. Misuse of Google Cloud infrastructure can lead to violations of service-level agreements or data-processing terms if cloud tools are misused by customers or accessed by government actors beyond terms of service. For example, Google’s participation in Project Nimbus may not align with its data-governance principles that prohibit uses that “violate, or encourage the violation of, the legal rights of others,” or for any “invasive” purpose, or anything “that can cause death, serious harm, or injury to individuals or groups of individuals.”2 By accepting alert mechanisms and contract terms that limit Google’s ability to restrict governmental use of its cloud services, the Company appears to conflict with its acceptable use policy.3<br>● Regulatory penalties leading to fines under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of up to 4% of global annual revenue.4Google has already faced major GDPR actions, including a €50 million fine from France’s data protection authority for inadequate transparency and consent processes.5<br>● Litigation and class-action exposure when data is collected, processed, or accessed in ways inconsistent with user expectations or product disclosures. For example, in 2025, a U.S. federal jury ordered Google to pay US$425 million in damages for violating the privacy rights of almost 100 million users who alleged Google continued collecting device and usage data after they disabled tracking settings.6</p>
<p>Alphabet’s current risk disclosures address data security, government access, and reputational exposure but do not discuss downstream risks associated with customer deployments of Google Cloud or scenarios in which government access requirements or custom contracting terms may substantially increase risk. Shareholders would benefit from greater transparency into Google’s protocol to comply with its own privacy and data protection standards.</p>
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<p>1 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/01/google-destroying-browsing-data-privacy-lawsuit<br>2 https://cloud.google.com/terms/aup<br>3 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code<br>4 https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/fines-penalties/<br>5 https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2019/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-financial-penalty-50-million-euros_en<br>6 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/google-violated-privacy-of-nearly-100-million-users-jury-finds</p>

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<p class=”p1″>According to the Wall Street Journal, Alphabet has co-led Big Tech’s opposition to the Kid’s Online Safety Act (KOSA) which “would assign to platforms what it calls a “duty of care,” essentially putting a legal onus on them to take steps to address mental-health disorders, addiction-like behaviors, bullying, sexual exploitation and more.” It further reported that KOSA is the first major federal legislation about child safety online since 1998 and had enjoyed rare bipartisan support until targeted by Big Tech lobbyists.</p>
<p class=”p2″>This is just the latest in a long history of lobbying against (or seeking special carve outs) in Congressional child safety related bills. Alphabet reported lobbying on child safety bills including S.1409 Kids Online Safety Act, S.1207 EARN IT Act 2023, S.1418 Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act, S.90 and H.R.538 Consumers about Smart Devices Act, S.474 REPORT Act, S.1291 Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, and S.1199 STOP CSAM [Child Sexual Abuse Materials] ACT of 2023, among others.</p>
<p class=”p2″>On a State level, Google has similarly opposed, or sought carve outs, against legislation in California, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Utah, requiring mandatory age verification aimed to help protect minors.</p>
<p class=”p3″>In New York it was reported that “Google and Meta are spearheading a fierce push to kill New York legislation aimed at protecting children online” regarding the $1 million in Big Tech lobbying against the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act. </p>
<p class=”p2″>Google has also lobbied against child safety related legislation in Australia, the United Kingdom and the European Union (amid accusation of illegal lobbying through front groups).</p>
<p class=”p2″>Alphabet has several child safety policies and commitments as stated in its Terms of Service, Transparency Reports, Google and You Tube Community Guidelines, Child Safety page, Privacy Page and its 2024 Proxy. Yet, the Company’s lobbying policy appears to be significantly misaligned with its child safety commitments.</p>
<p class=”p2″><strong>RESOLVED:</strong> Shareholders request the Board of Directors analyze and report to shareholders (at reasonable cost and omitting confidential information) on whether and how<strong> </strong>Alphabet is aligning its lobbying and policy influence activities and positions, both direct and indirect (through trade associations, coalitions, alliances, and other organizations) with its child safety polices and commitments, including the activities and positions analyzed, the criteria used to assess alignment, and involvement of stakeholders, if any, in its analytical process.</p>
<p class=”p2″>In evaluating the degree of alignment between its child safety policies and its lobbying, Alphabet should consider not only its policy positions and those of organizations of which it is a member but also the actual lobbying activities, such as legislative comment submissions.</p>

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<p>RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors commission an independent third-party report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, on the due diligence process Alphabet Inc. (Alphabet) uses to determine whether customers’ use of products and services for surveillance, censorship, and/or military purposes contributes to human rights harms in conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA).1</p>
<p class=”p1″>SUPPORTING STATEMENT</p>
<p class=”p2″>Shareholders seek information, at board and management discretion, through a report that:</p>

Discusses how risks associated with customer use of products and services for surveillance, censorship, and/or military purposes in CAHRA are assessed, mitigated, and reported upon; and
Assesses if additional policies, practices, and governance measures are needed to mitigate risks.

<p class=”p5″>WHEREAS: CAHRA are increasing globally, with 30 percent more people killed in 2024 than 2023 and the number of conflicts doubling in the last five years.2 A survey of 1,200 CEOs indicated 97 percent of respondents altered investment plans due to geopolitical volatility,3 while another study found that 84 percent of the world’s 26 largest investors identified “geopolitical confrontation” as a top three systemic risk.4</p>
<p class=”p6″>Alphabet’s Human Rights Policy commits the company to “responsible decision-making around emerging technologies.”5 Research indicates that Alphabet is providing products and services to customers in CAHRA, which may be contributing to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights, including:</p>

Supporting cloud data centers in Saudi Arabia for the state’s access to user data and well-documented surveillance, detention, and extrajudicial killings of dissidents.67
Providing Customs and Border Patrol with a “virtual wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border8 and integrating Vertex AI9 into an expansive surveillance system10 risks, exposing Alphabet to Customs and Border Patrol’s family separation policy and surveillance of immigrant communities.11
Supporting the Chinese company Semptian, which is enhancing the surveillance and censorship capabilities of Chinese security agencies.12
Providing cloud computing technology, through Project Nimbus, to the Israeli government, including the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), raising ethical, legal, and reputational risks concerns among Google executives and employees.13 14 Project Nimbus has reportedly supported IDF operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including AI-powered facial recognition and sentiment analysis15 and the enabling of Israel’s AI-assisted targeting systems.16 17

<p>Compliance with Russian government requests to remove videos on YouTube related to censorship circumvention tools and avoiding military conscription and blocking digital rights organization channels.18</p>
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<p>Alphabet’s Human Rights Policy states, “Transparency is core to our commitment to respect human rights” and mentions human rights impact assessments.19 However, there is no information on how the increasing use of Alphabet products and services for surveillance, military and/or censorship purposes in CAHRA exposes the company to human rights risks. The requested report will provide investors with meaningful insights into the company’s governance of these material risks.</p>
<p class=”p1″>1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264185050-en</p>
<p class=”p2″>2  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/12/conflict-war-2024-israel-gaza-ukraine/</p>
<p class=”p3″>3 https://assets.ey.com/content/dam/ey-sites/ey-com/en_us/topics/ceo/ey-ceo-outlook-pulse-survey-january-2023-global- report.pdf</p>
<p class=”p4″>4   https://www.thinkingaheadinstitute.org/news/article/worlds-largest-investors-increasingly-concerned-on-systemic-risks/</p>
<p class=”p2″>5 https://about.google/human-rights/</p>
<p class=”p2″>6   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/googles-perilous-plan-cloud-center-saudi-arabia-irresponsible-threat-human-rights</p>
<p class=”p3″>7  https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/saudi-arabia/</p>
<p class=”p2″>8 https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/google-cbp-border-contract-anduril/</p>
<p class=”p2″>9 https://fedscoop.com/customs-border-protection-ai-tools/</p>
<p class=”p3″>10    https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/17/1071682/us-pouring-money-surveillance-towers-southern-border/</p>
<p class=”p2″>11 https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-separation-border</p>
<p class=”p3″>12 https://theintercept.com/2019/07/11/china-surveillance-google-ibm-semptian/</p>
<p class=”p2″>13 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/technology/google-israel-contract-project-nimbus.html</p>
<p class=”p2″>14 https://time.com/7013685/google-ai-deepmind-military-contracts-israel/</p>
<p class=”p2″>15 https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-idf/</p>
<p class=”p2″>16 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/-project-nimbus-key-asset-in-israel-s-war-on-gaza-occupied-palestine-/3195224</p>
<p class=”p2″>17 https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/</p>
<p class=”p3″>18 https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/17/russia-foreign-tech-companies-cave-authorities-pressure</p>
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