Google To Retire ‘Dark Web Report’ Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data

Google has decided to retire its free dark web monitoring tool, saying it wasn’t as helpful as the company hoped.

In a support page, the Google announced the discontinuation of the “dark web report” tool, two years after offering it as a free perk to Gmail users before expanding it more broadly. 

The feature worked by scanning for your email addresses to determine whether they had appeared in data breaches, which often circulate on Dark Web marketplaces. The tool could then…