Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 expansion will drive further misconduct. Past abuses include:

| • | On behalf of the European Union, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission                                           
 has opened an inquiry into one of Alphabet’s AI models, which could be a “‘high risk to the rights and freedoms 
 of individuals’ in the EU.”9                                                                                    |
| • | Google settled a “class-action suit that sought damage payments of at least $5 billion”10                       
 for “pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in ‘private’ mode.”11                         
 The Company agreed to delete all the data collected.12                                                          |
| • | Google abandoned plans to remove third-party cookies from its Chrome browser after advertisers                  
 expressed concerns about the effectiveness of Google’s personalized advertising – Alphabet’s largest revenue    
 driver.13 The reversal drew scrutiny from the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority, which argued  
 that “concerns remain.”14                                                                                       |
| • | The Company has longstanding ties with U.S. intelligence agencies, which raises concerns                        
 about Alphabet’s role in surveillance on US citizens.15 16                                                      |

These are just a few of Alphabet’s many privacy and ethics violations. 17 18 19 20 Prioritizing data ethics in Alphabet’s AI development will help avoid harmful fiduciary and regulatory 21 22consequences. 23Developers who prioritize ethical data usage will reap the benefits of consumer trust, 24while those that do not will suffer. Alphabet’s position in the AI arms race, and its associated historic valuation, hang in the balance. Resolved:Shareholders request the Company to prepare a report, at reasonable cost, omitting proprietary or legally privileged information, to be published within one year of the Annual Meeting and updated annually thereafter, which assesses the risks to the Company’s operations and finances, and to public welfare, presented by the real or potential unethical or improper usage of external data in the development, training, and deployment of its artificial intelligence offerings; what steps the Company takes to mitigate those risks; and how it measures the effectiveness of such efforts.

| (1) | https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-training-data-synthetic-openai-anthropic-9230f8d8                                           |
| (2) | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-personal-information-is-probably-being-used-to-train-generative-ai-models/ |
| (3) | https://www.axios.com/2024/01/02/copyright-law-viol