Google reportedly backing out of military contract after public backlash

A controversial Googlecontract with the U.S. military will not be renewed next year after internal and public outcry against it, Gizmodo reports. The program itself was not particularly distasteful or lucrative, but served as a foot in the door for the company to pursue more government work that may very well have been both.
Project Maven, as the program was known, essentially had Google working with the military to perform image analysis on sensitive footage like that from drones flying over co