Once upon a time, Google considered the possibility of creating its own currency called Google Bucks, much to the likes of the Bitcoin cash system. The statement came after Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, announced his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.

Google's new privacy policy is still scheduled to go into effect Thursday — apparently despite concerns expressed by 36 state attorneys general and France on behalf of the European Union, its non-compliance with President Obama's proposed privacy 'Bill of Rights,' and a poll showing only one-in-eight Google users have bothered to read the new privacy statement.

Google has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Pwn2Own contest at this year’s CanWestSec security conference, opting instead to sponsor “Pwnium,” its own competition at CanWestSec for security exploits found in its own Chrome browser. Google is putting its money where its mouth is, offering up to $1 million for viable security exploits found in its …

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Google's new privacy policy appears to violate the European Union's data protection rules, France's regulator said Tuesday, just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into force.

Google's new privacy policy appears to violate the European Union's data protection rules, France's regulator said Tuesday, just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into force.

Google's new privacy policy has proved pretty unpopular with state attorneys general at home, and now a French regulator says it might just violate privacy rules in the European Union, and it's also running afoul of Korean guidelines.

Some people are worried that on March 1st, Google will begin consolidating information across its many products. That means that any information you enter in one product, say YouTube, can be combined with information from other Google services including search, Gmail or Google's new Google+ social networking site. In its new privacy policy, Google says …

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Google's second core principle is:  "It’s best to do one thing really, really well."

Google's plan to share user data across its online services will have little effect on users of the company's enterprise, government and education application suites, the company said.

Google came up with "Don't be evil" in 2000, but recently the company, now with $38 billion in revenue, has had to counter complaints that it invaded consumer privacy. Is it possible for a company that has grown big and faces aggressive competitors to not appear evil?