Doesn’t even have to be a lofty goal like fixing climate change. I’d settle for the backdoors not leading to disclosure and scams, as any such weakening of security or privacy inadvertently does.
When there was the leak of ID photos from that one site (forget which one) I sighed, because neither the users nor the site wanted to keep ID photos around, but the government made them do that. It was the most predictable result I could have imagined.
That’s an incredibly dangerous move. Even bad numbers would just be an embarrassment for the President. But not releasing the numbers forces everyone to assume they are the worst case scenario possible, which could make for absolute market panic.