Comment by whoknowswhat11

Apple has generally locked things down successfully.

There was concern about phone's being grabbed - street robberies. Regardless of whether you believe their were sweeping generalizations - apple ended up creating more power for themselves with their activation lock system. If they don't want to let you sell your phone to someone - they can block use of your phone. But folks trust them to operate the system reasonably, and so far so good there.

They have locked down their app store very tightly for a variety of reasons including supposedly for security. Users have accepted that.

Apple's competitors (google photos etc) generally are directly scannable in the cloud by google et al. Facebook and others routinely scan users photos. Youtube scans their videos etc. My guess is apple will explain why they are doing it and users are going to be happy.

And yes, users are linking things like ring doorbells and home security video cameras together or registering them so that the police state can use them.