During the 2022 Annual General Meeting of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, the majority of shareholders voted against a civil society-backed shareholder proposal led by SumOfUs to uphold human rights principles, after Google announced plans to build a Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. The silver lining is that the majority of independent shareholders (57.6%) voted in …
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Joint Statement by Human Rights and Digital Privacy Rights Organizations The undersigned human rights and digital rights organizations urge Google to immediately halt its plan to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia until the company can publicly demonstrate how it will mitigate adverse human rights impacts. Saudi Arabia’s recent track record of …
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In a decision to expand their global network with new cloud regions, Google announced in December 2020 that Google Cloud will deploy and operate a Cloud region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This decision is a result of an agreement between Aramco (Saudi Petroleum giant) and Google, after two years of discussions. They …
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