Protects customer privacy
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.