Bureaucrats only care whether they can get the info they need, they don't really care how they get it whether it's ethic or even lawful and thus they will do wh

Bureaucrats only care whether they can get the info they need, they don't really care how they get it whether it's ethic or even lawful and thus they will do what ever they can to extract the data they want including forcing corporates to hand out their customer's data, snooping all the internet/telecom traffic, deliberately plant weaknesses/backdoors to encryption algorithms etc. Following that line, lobbying for prohibiting encryption is definitely the next step or I should rather say has already going on for a while. Such move will leave normal citizens vulnerable but does not mean much to criminals /terrorist as they will always find the crypto provider they need anyway.