Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info

Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Google detected their personal information on the dark web, as reported by 9to5Google. On January 15th, Google will stop scanning for that data, like contact info and home addresses, and any data it collected so far will no longer be available to users starting on February 16th.

The email sent to users who were signed up for the feature explains, “While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it did not provide helpful next steps. We’re making this change to instead fo …

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