… not least, it provides business opportunities for all manner of small per-nation escrowed-access startup messengers which can leak sensitive content all over the Web once they are inevitably hacked.  The important thing is that the public-at-large need not suffer the same fate:

The Michigan State Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to block state workers from using messaging apps that feature end-to-end encryption on their government-issued phones, following concerns that such apps could be used to evade open-records laws.The one-page bill directs the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget to “issue directives that all state departments and all state agencies must not use any app, software, or other technology that prevents it from maintaining or preserving a public record as required by law on an electronic device that is used to create a public record.” If enacted, the bill would effectively ban the use of apps like Signal, Telegram or the Facebook-owned WhatsApp by nearly all state workers.

Source: Michigan poised to ban most state workers’ use of encrypted messaging