The dark web is a very dangerous place and we need to be very careful about all our online activities these days as you never know what personal data is leaked over there. Many of the popular tech giants have made attempts and released features that help users against the same. Last year, search engine giant Google introduced a safety feature known as “Dark Web Reports”. This feature allowed its Google One subscribers to check if their personal data is available on the dark web or if it has been breached.
Now, Google has further increased the reach of the feature to other non-subscribers too. As I mentioned before, users will now be able to check for themselves if their data is being used on the dark web.
This feature lets users get a detailed analysis of leaked personal data, including names, dates of birth, and phone numbers.
As per an updated banner on the Google One app, the feature will not be exclusive to users after “late July”. Further, if you click on the ‘Learn More’ button on the banner, it leads to Google’s support page. Here, you can see that Google has officially revealed that the feature “will become available to all users with a consumer Google Account.”
When you go to the Google search page, there’s a “Results about you” section. You will find out about your dark web presence too just here. You can then also request to remove the same.
Users will also be able to manually add information to their profiles to find and check which details have made their way to the dark web. Users can edit and delete their monitoring profiles or stop the reports altogether.
