Google confirms its tech is used by Pentagon

A program called Project Maven is utilising the technology to automate the analysis of objects in the enormous amount of images that are captured by the Department of Defence's surveillance drones - also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Gizmodo reported that some Google employees were "outraged that the company would offer resources to the military for surveillance technology involved in drone operations". There have been almost 30,000 coalition strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria since the US-led intervention in 2014, the intelligence behind many of which is developed by analysis of UAV surveillance footage. Google confirmed that software called TensorFlow was being used by the Pentagon for a pilot and said it had "long worked with government agencies to provide technology solutions". A Google spokesperson said: "The technology flags images for human review, and is for non-offensive uses only.