meta owns whatsapp, which already uses end—to—end encryption. it had planned to introduce similar features by default to facebook and instagram's messenger services. however, it's pushed back its encryption plans until 2023 after campaigning by child welfare groups. we now see more grooming offences on instagram than any other platform on the market. so, we've got a situation where the highest risk platform, instagram, is now proposing to put on a blindfold and, at a stroke, eliminate its ability to even see what's happening on its site. to complicate matters, the government campaign has provoked the uk information commissioner's office to say: we find ourselves in a position where two public bodies are on opposing sides of the argument — the information commissioner's office and the national crime agency. the nca points to the case of convicted sex offender david wilson. he posed as teenage girls