Seeing your data on the dark web is always bad news. Whether it’s credentials such as those from the RockYou2024 record leak, bank details, personal documents or any other type of digital asset, their mere presence in any of the repositories is already a threat. A threat, yes, to which we will have to respond in one way or another depending on the type of information leaked.

That, Knowing that our data has appeared on the dark web is good news, and it’s for that very reason, because it alerts us to the potential risks we face once information falls into the wrong hands. Problem with access data? We will change them immediately, bank connection? Adjust the ones that are possible and watch out for fraudulent use of the rest and so on with almost everything.

Well, for some time Google One offers its users a service that analyzes the dark web regularly and will notify you if it finds your data. As you can see in the image below this paragraph, you are the one who chooses what specific data you want to search in the mentioned repositories, and the messages that are generated at any point of the same indicate the origin of the leak and the service. related to it. As a Google One user for quite some time, this is one of the features that I have always rated most positively.

This feature is recommended so that with surprise Google has decided to offer personal data searches on the dark web to all its users, as stated by the company itself. And yes, I mean all accounts, including the free ones, will be able to enable privacy tracking and be notified from then on if there is a data breach.

Of course, the dark web reporting function as such will disappear, and instead the information that Google obtains from monitoring said spaces will appear in “Results about you”, the space in which Google collects at your request all the information about you that is published on the Internet. But that’s the problem This feature is not currently available in Spain. Therefore, if there are no changes in this regard, Google One subscribers will lose this very useful feature and we will no longer be able to access the mentioned information.

Google’s 2024 Google One Subscription Policy, It is surprising to say the leastand in the months so far this year, there have been important changes to features that were exclusive to subscriptions. On the one hand, we have seen how many AI-based image editing tools have been extended to all users. And others like the VPN service have been removed. So I can’t help but wonder if the search engine’s intention is to reduce the value proposition of Google One, or if they plan to add new features later.