Yeah, that whole angle has me wondering if changing my own habits to gain privacy that the average person doesn't get will just put a target on my back. If they want to spy on everyone to figure out who is a danger to the ruling class and status quo, they could eventually just start treating anyone that they can't spy on as suspects and either use other mechanisms to break through that privacy to make sure or just criminalize that stuff.
They were trying but I think the last round of laws failed because they'd have to admit that the current commonly used encryption schemes have backdoors and wouldn't need to be banned when the whole question of "what about business uses?" came up.