Google will cease sending out darkish internet studies beginning early subsequent yr, because it shuts down the free tool that may let you know in case your private data has appeared on the seedy underbelly of the web. The software was solely accessible to Google One subscribers till the corporate opened it up to everyone in mid-2024. In case you change it on, you’ll obtain a notification every time your title, electronic mail deal with and cellphone quantity leak on the web, sometimes on account of information breaches.

In Google’s electronic mail announcement, nonetheless, it mentioned it was discontinuing darkish internet studies as a result of “suggestions confirmed that it didn’t present useful subsequent steps.” A report simply lets you understand that your data has appeared on the darkish internet. You can even see an inventory of all of the hits you get in your Google account, together with what information breach leaked that specific element. Nevertheless, it doesn’t offer you steerage on what to do afterwards.

The corporate defined that it’s going to deal with instruments that may give you clear, actionable step to take as an alternative. Google will cease monitoring for brand new darkish internet outcomes on January 15, 2026 and can take away entry to the report out of your account on February 16. You can even remove your monitoring profile proper now by going to the “outcomes along with your information” part on the software’s official web page.