So, yes, one of the above.  Depends on how countries might negotiate and they can have rules and penalties for rule breaking, just like they do for most other things.<p>What I don&#x27;t get is one the one hand it&#x27;s too expensive for governments to do effective snooping (too much data to sift) but on the other hand trust would be broken because everyone could find anything... but governments would be incapable of finding information that same trust breaking information.<p>1. despots already leave their populations unfed, the world keeps on going.<p>2. commerce happened before encryption.  There hasn&#x27;t been good reliable and easy to use encryption till the last couple of years.  it&#x27;s not as if the world hadn&#x27;t globalized despite that.<p>3. There are already a lot of rules which apply to international commerce, this add very little in comparison.<p>4. Govt&#x27;s who want to share in this scheme agree to rules and penalties for breaking them.