Campaign aims to stop Facebook encryption plans over child abuse fears

No Place to Hide drive funded by Home Office to warn social media firms over dangers of end-to-end encryption

A government-backed campaign has stepped up the pressure on plans by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Messenger and Instagram apps to introduce end-to-end encryption, warning that millions of cases of child sex abuse could go undetected.

The new campaign warns that social media companies are willingly blindfolding" themselves to abuse if they implement end-to-end encryption for private messaging.