Amazon Shareholder Engagement Presentation Deck
Item 6-Shareholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Customer Due
Diligence
Why We Recommend You Vote Against This Proposal
Amazon is committed to the responsible use of our artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) products and services.
Among other actions, we have:
Implemented a moratorium on police use of Amazon Rekognition's facial comparison feature for criminal investigations
Dedicated significant resources to machine learning accuracy and bias mitigation: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/responsible-
machine-learning/
Worked with leading technology companies and organizations such as the ACLU, Future of Privacy Forum, and the MIT Initiative on the
Digital Economy to advance public understanding of Al technologies and address opportunities and challenges with Al technologies to
benefit people and society, focusing on areas such as ethics, fairness, inclusivity, and transparency
➤ Contrary to the proponent's mischaracterization, Amazon Rekognition is not a surveillance system. Amazon Rekognition does
not collect images for users to perform searches on and does not provide any photos or data for users to search or compare
images against. In the more than five years AWS has been offering Amazon Rekognition, AWS has never received a report of
Amazon Rekognition being misused in the manner posited in this proposal
Ring completed a civil rights and civil liberties audit with the Policing Project at New York University School of Law focused on
potential racial justice, civil rights, civil liberties, and democratic accountability issues relating to law enforcement's use of
Neighbors and Ring's practices regarding law enforcement requests for information, and implemented numerous changes to
Ring's products, policies, and legal processes. The results of the audit are publicly available at
https://www.policingproject.org/ring
Proponents: Investor Advocates for Social Justice on behalf of Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, Sisters of St. Francis of
Philadelphia, Unitarian Universalist Association, American Baptist Home Mission Society, and Friends Fiduciary Corporation,
Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Inc., The Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order amazon
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