In the US, there are laws on the books that telecom corps are required to facilitate searches or wiretaps on client communication when presented with a court order. And if you look at the metadata collection deal that Obama passed recently, it says that the NSA can't collect metadata, but telecoms are required to do it instead and produce it when served with a court order. So, it's not at all unprecedented for government to make it a legal problem and put the onus on private industry. This is actually Hillary's most recent stance on encryption. She says if we can't "break" encryption or have backdoors, you have to give us another option. Wouldn't be surprised if Holland and others have a similar idea in mind.