Google was exposed years and years ago for using their ML tech for military and police purposes, by their own employees who protested over it. Google just let people lose steam over time, and went right on ahead with it.

Excuse the NYT paywall, but here is an article from 2018 about employees protesting that their AI tech was being used to ID targets, and fears that it would be used for drone strikes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html