Google Dark Web Report Feature What is It and How to Use It for Free and One Premium Users All Steps

Google made the Dark Web Report feature live for Google One customers in India in the month of August. Although the dark web is used to hide the identity and whereabouts of users, it has now become a hub for hackers to sell and buy sensitive personal data of people around the world. Many attackers steal databases or archives of companies and upload these databases full of people’s personal information on the dark web to earn money. However, Google’s new Dark Web Report feature allows users to track their information even in the darkest corners of the Internet. If you don’t know about this feature yet, read below.

Before we look at how to use this feature, let’s get some important information about it. The purpose of Google Dark Web Report is to inform users whether their personal information has been compromised on the dark web. This feature searches the information specified by the users on the dark web. Let us tell you that Google’s Dark Web Report feature was earlier available only to customers having Google One’s premium 2TB plan. However, now some of its features can also be used by free users of Google One.

Google’s AccordingThe Dark Web Report feature searches the dark web for your name, address, phone number, email, social security number (for US users only), username, and password, among other information, and notifies you which of these information have been leaked.

However, free users can only check their email address on the dark web, while Google One premium users can check all the options mentioned above on the dark web. Apart from this, paid users get a special monitoring option to keep checking these personal information continuously. Apart from this, Google also sends alerts to these users if anything is found on the dark web.

How to use Dark Web Report feature?

For this, premium users will first have to go to the Google One app and tap on the profile picture and they will see the Dark Web Report feature. Here they have to tap on Run Scan.

At the same time, free users can also use this feature on the app like premium users. However, if they do not see this feature on the app right now, then they one.google.com You can go to Dark Web Report and click on the Try Now link available on the option. Here they will get the Run Scan option.