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Open Media and Information Companies Initiative (Open MIC) works to hold companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google & Meta accountable via shareholder engagement. #shareholderengagement #responsibleinvestment
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"This proxy season, over 98% of investors have voted in support of maintaining current corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs." Proposals from right-wing think tank NCPPR have targeted DEI programs at 13 corporations so far. 13 times the proposals have been decisively voted down.

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"The AI boom has taken off at an awkward time for the fight against climate change," says journalist ‪@kenzabryan.ft.com‬. Despite commitments to clean energy and decarbonization, Big Tech's data centers are increasing our reliance on fossil fuels. loom.ly/fQssNbg

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Chinese tech companies have historically been some of the least transparent in the Ranking Digital Rights Index – not surprising, given the country's "tightly controlled" internet. This year that changed: three Chinese companies showed significant improvements in governance transparency.

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This week several Big Tech companies are holding their annual meetings, and shareholders are already expressing concern that the companies will backslide on their environmental promises due to AI's heavy use of energy and water.

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AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework. Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice. KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

⏰ Application deadline in 1 week 🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context. If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...

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Essay by @janrydzak.bsky.social as part of the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index outlines the state of Big Tech's human rights impacts. "The U.S. tech giants had three years to make progress. But our results strongly suggest they don’t have much to show for it." loom.ly/HFLRtu4

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#FacialRecognition is a privacy nightmare, and is rightly banned in many jurisdictions. But a new tool called Track gives law enforcement agencies a loophole: instead of faces, it tracks non-biometric parameters like bodyweight, height, gender, hair color, and shoe color.

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