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[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images/Google Image caption Google's Cloud computing division had eyed up a lucrative US Department of Defense contract Google has abandoned efforts to win a $10bn (£7.7bn) Pentagon cloud computing contract. The firm said the work might have transgressed principles it published in June limiting its artificial-intelligence-related activities . Thousands of its staff had previously protested against its involvement in a separate Department of Defense project. The tech firm revealed the latest decision hours after confirming it had exposed Google+ users' personal data. Cloud clash The Pentagon contract was for a project named after the Star Wars films - the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud (Jedi). Bids were due to be submitted on Friday. Securing the contract, which in...