<h1>Use of commercial cloud services draws urgent external review amid allegations of military misuse and employee protests.</h1> Allegations that a national military used a commercial cloud platform to process mass surveillance data prompted Microsoft to commission an 'urgent' external review by counsel, citing its terms of service as prohibiting such usage and committing to share the law firm's findings; worker protests and prior undisclosed internal review intensified scrutiny of contractual compliance, transparency, and corporate responsibility regarding military use of commercial AI and cloud services.