historically you can go to a provider of communication service, whether it is post—or high—end internet communication and you can say, we need access to this. with end—to—end encryption, the company can say there is no way of giving that access, so privacy campaigners and many in the tech industry will say this is a very good thing because that means that hackers, hostile foreign governments and so forth cannot get at these types of communications. meta owns whatsapp which already uses end—to—end encryption and had planned to use more features by default to facebook and instagram's messenger services however it has 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 have a situation where the highest risk platform, instagram, is now proposing to put on a blindfold and at a stroke