I am being asked to re-verify my Apple ID after the update

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) can provide insights into common data collection practices and online privacy, as can apps such as Loupe and services such as EFF’s Cover Your Tracks. Among others.

As for the Apple Account re-verification, only Apple knows what is triggering that here. And probably also disinclined to discuss it.

TL;DR: re-verify, or not.

Verify, or not. Pragmatically, there’s probably something sketchy about your connections. VPN, maybe.

Verify, or not. Or re-verify or not. Your choice.

Legislatures around the world are increasingly requiring age and other details be collected too and across many systems, so if you’re going to assign blame, do assign it correctly.

If you don’t want the information centrally collected by Apple or Microsoft, individual web services will need to collect your data locally, or using some other third-party data-collection (and quite possibly also data aggregation) service.

And given the recent Nexus breach, I’d prefer the data at Apple and not elsewhere, if it must be collected.

I’ve not blamed anyone ? All I asked was why when Apple already hold my relevant information they keep asking me for it again ? How else do they keep in touch with their customer base they hold millions of personal information from their customer base yet they require me to verify !

surely common sense would come into play after contacting their customers with an alert an email a message etc with is sent direct to that particular customer with their already held id how else do they keep in touch with their client base?

Then why isn’t Apple picking up on this I’m just a bloke who uses his mobile phone to keep in contact with my family and friends and as a lay man I haven’t a clue about vpn or any other connection I presume a vpn is a connection? If Apple are monitoring their applications to customers can they not tell if their is a problem with my connections . Most people like me just adhere to Apple after they send you an update you don’t question it you just install the update I haven’t a clue about vpn lan or any other connection structures . I just don’t like big brother watching me .

Forget the “why” just re-verify and be done with it. No one here can answer the “why” question because these are user-to-user community forums and no one works for Apple in these forums.

" I just don’t like big brother watching me ."

Big Brother is watching all of us and there’s nothing we can do about it except get off the grid, find a log cabin in the wilderness, and become a hunter/gatherer once again. Well you could get rid of your smartphone and buy what’s known as a burner phone that does nothing but make and receive phone calls, some texting, and maybe email.