The cloud storage subscription service of Google continues to receive changes, this time for the benefit of the rest of the users of the company’s accounts. If Google One recently lost its VPN service and gained integration with AI Gemininow loses the exclusivity of one of its most useful tools for preventing cyber scams, Dark Web Reports.
Google One subscribers have started receiving a message when opening the app telling them that ‘the Dark Web report will no longer be available in Google One’ from the end of July‘.
The good news is for the rest of Google users who will gain access to this feature from the mentioned date. As the company explains on the Google One help page, the Dark Web report is a feature that helps monitor whether user’s personal information is circulating on the dark web.
This includes data such as the name, address, telephone number and email that may be part of the information leaked in security breachesa phenomenon that has been common for years. Even if this information does not include passwords, It is enough for cybercriminals to use it and take advantage of it in their scams.These reports are available in 46 countries, including Spain.
These reports will appear starting this month next to the section Results about you in the Google app, since both functions are focused on the user knowing their online presence and being able to protect it. ‘combined solution’Google calls it.
In Results about you, you can request the removal of search results containing personal information of the user. That is, present on the open web, while Dark Web reports are focused on the dark web, as the name suggests. When Google, monitoring the Dark Web, finds information that matches the user’s, notifies you by email and notifications that also offer tips on how to protect your personal information.