indeed - i'm not clear on the basis for the outrage here. from what the article here says (i don't know more about it than that), it's not clear to me that goo

indeed - i'm not clear on the basis for the outrage here. from what the article here says (i don't know more about it than that), it's not clear to me that google is doing more than selling their cloud video analysis products to a customer for experimental use on unclassified data. and this kind of sale necessarily comes with offers of (paid) support and consulting services because customers need help. one might object to this customer, certainly - but if so, one might ask, to which customers is google's cloud business not supposed to sell services on this basis? google has never pretended that it didn't sell its products to the defense and intelligence agencies at all; keyhole (google earth) was for many years a major product in the GEOINT sector [0]. if one's objection is to folks working on anything relating to a military or intelligence problem, well, a very large fraction of US senior faculty have taken funding from defense agencies to work on unclassified versions of applications: tracking, image/video/text analysis challenges, etc. etc. etc. [0] http://trajectorymagazine.com/genesis-google-earth/ http://trajectorymagazine.com/genesis-google-earth/