The government also have an interest in ensuring that the nation's businesses don't fuck up due to easily preventable infosec failure. Because infosec fails equals lost consumer confidence, lost economic development, lost taxes and much else besides. Governments have wider interests beyond simply sniffing all your traffic.
This is why the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - which is the friendly business-and-civilian-facing side of GCHQ - publish lots of guidance telling people to use TLS.
Oh, I get it. Government illegal hacking and capturing of data due to increased infosec doesn't equal to lost consumer confidence, lost taxes and all that (or only to a lesser extent). Priorities, eh..
This is why the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - which is the friendly business-and-civilian-facing side of GCHQ - publish lots of guidance telling people to use TLS.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=20&q=allintext%3Ahttps+s...