This is only half of the story. What is really in the works is a plan to require all cameras to crypto-graphically watermark images and video they take. This is openly planned and suggested to benefit the photographer and journalist, as they can make every image have it, but they can assure their own produced media....but of course, when all hardware requires it, then all methods of communications are forced to support the new image formats and pushed away from non-spy formats, then it becomes practically forced on everyone.

Just like browsers. By websites requiring spy features, permitted to run applications on your computer, albeit in a sandbox, such as web-workers and sub-processes, that are features of Google Chrome and all those based on it like FireFox and Microsoft edge....you eventually cannot block them or no website works, such as a Cloudflare protected site. New browser makers can't compete, because they wouldn't want to implement such an overt backdoor in their browser as the chrome based browsers, their RPC Admin/root control of your whole operating system.