Apple are going to change your passwords without your permission

Our Take

This video comes from a channel that spends most of its time outside our usual lane — digital ID, CBDCs, UK-style mass surveillance — but the underlying worry is the same one we track every day: who controls the infrastructure of your daily life, and what happens when you have no say in it. If a company can quietly reset something as basic as your password without your consent, that's not a glitch, it's a demonstration of leverage. The same logic applies to a camera network that scans your plate every time you drive to work, church, or a protest — you didn't agree to it, you can't opt out of it, and the data lives wherever the vendor decides to put it.

We can't verify the specific technical claims in this video since Apple's policies shift constantly and the creator's broader catalog leans heavily into speculative territory — so take the specifics with appropriate skepticism. But the instinct behind the alarm is worth taking seriously: big tech and big policing increasingly share a playbook of building systems first and asking permission never. Flock Safety's ALPR network is a textbook case — thousands of cameras installed in American neighborhoods, often without public votes, feeding a searchable database that police departments across state lines can query.

If centralized control over your passwords bothers you, centralized control over your physical movements should bother you more. Check our map to see if Flock cameras are already logging your plate, and visit take action for concrete steps to push back at the local level — credit to Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency for keeping the bigger surveillance picture in view.