{"id":227162,"date":"2025-12-16T01:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/google-is-shutting-down-its-dark-web-report-feature-in-january"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:32:24","slug":"google-is-shutting-down-its-dark-web-report-feature-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/google-is-shutting-down-its-dark-web-report-feature-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Google is shutting down its dark web report feature in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-is-shutting-down-its-dark-web-report-feature-in-january2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google is discontinuing its \u201cdark web report\u201d security tool, stating that it wants to focus on other tools it believes are more helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s dark web report tool is a security feature that notifies users if their email address or other personal information was found on the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>After Google scans the dark web and identifies your personal information, it will notify you where the data was found and what type of data was exposed, encouraging users to take action to protect their data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is discontinuing its \u201cdark web report\u201d security tool, stating that it wants to focus on other tools it believes are more helpful. Google\u2019s dark web report tool is a security feature that notifies users if their email address or other personal information was found on the dark web. After Google scans the dark web [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}