Unfortunately, many companies might be unscrupulous about harvesting and selling users' private data. Numerous scandals cropped up in recent years, which indicates that users' data is not safe. For example, the Cambridge Analytica breach in 2018, which involved Meta Platforms Inc. 's META Facebook platform allowing data to be used for political advertising; LinkedIn having a major data breach, with all its users' data posted to the dark web; and users en masse ditching WhatsApp in 2021 over secure messaging concerns.