Most people won't have to do anything ahead of this change. The reports will cease to update in January, and then in February, the data for these reports will be deleted. If you're not keen on leaving it up to Google, you can head into your account right now and delete the data yourself.

Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Google detected their personal information on t...