{"id":265061,"date":"2026-06-05T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/nlpc-calls-for-strengthened-data-privacy-protections-from-google-at-annual-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:35:10","slug":"nlpc-calls-for-strengthened-data-privacy-protections-from-google-at-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/nlpc-calls-for-strengthened-data-privacy-protections-from-google-at-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/nlpc.org\/corporate-integrity-project\/nlpc-calls-for-strengthened-data-privacy-protections-from-google\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-05 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: nlpc.org<\/a><\/p>\n

NLPC presented a \u201cReport on AI Data Usage Oversight\u201d shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of \u201cunethical or improper usage of external data in the development and training of its artificial intelligence\u00a0offerings\u201d and to disclose what safeguards the Company has in place.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s board of directors opposed our proposal, as explained on page 96 of its proxy statement.\u00a0NLPC\u00a0responded to the board\u2019s opposition statement\u00a0in\u00a0an exempt solicitation report\u00a0circulated to the company\u2019s shareholders.<\/p>\n

Presenting the proposal at the meeting was\u00a0Paul Chesser, director of NLPC\u2019s\u00a0Corporate Integrity Project. An audio recording of his presentation can be found\u00a0here, and a transcript of his three-minute remarks follows:<\/p>\n

Proposal Number 14 asks one thing of Alphabet: publish an annual report on the risks of unethical or improper external data use in its AI offerings.<\/p>\n

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The Board refuses, saying things like internal governance systems; opt-out controls; and trade-association memberships should be sufficient.<\/p>\n

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That answer might have been defensible once.<\/p>\n

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It isn\u2019t anymore.<\/p>\n

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Over the past twelve months, Alphabet has paid roughly $1.9 billion dollars to settle privacy claims, including the largest single-state privacy settlement in the Company\u2019s history; a federal jury verdict for tracking nearly a hundred million smartphone users who had turned tracking off; and a separate settlement over Google Assistant recording private conversations.<\/p>\n

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Every dollar of that post-dates the governance systems the Board now asks you to trust.<\/p>\n

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And the risks are no longer confined to data going in.<\/p>\n

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They are now on the AI side, going out.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, a Florida father filed the first wrongful-death lawsuit involving Google\u2019s Gemini.<\/p>\n

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The complaint alleges the chatbot drew his 36-year-old son into a delusional…<\/p>\n

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