After years of ever-deepening privacy violations in the US, I'm surprised that this hasn't passed yet. I mean, the government already legally demands that all

After years of ever-deepening privacy violations in the US, I'm surprised that this hasn't passed yet. I mean, the government already legally demands that all the large corporations make them a copy of all of your communications that pass through them. So why should it be legal for you to encrypt any of it without them being able to decrypt it? How are they supposed to spy on you effectively with just the meta-data, you know?