Google has started notifying customers that Checks, its privacy compliance platform for app and AI developers, is being discontinued. The service will be fully shut down at the end of September 2026. If your team relies on Checks for privacy reports, code compliance scanning, or AI safety evaluations, you have roughly six weeks to plan a migration and secure your data.
Here is what the announcement says, what Checks actually did, and what the shutdown tells us about where Google thinks compliance tooling is going.
What the announcement says
On August 19, 2026, Google sent a "Deprecation of the Checks product" email to every active Checks account. The key facts from the message:
The deprecation timeline officially began on August 17, 2026.
