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c.apple.news
classified as first-party · 2
What our research panel found AI-drafted · human-reviewed
We ask several independent AI models the same question and publish their answers separately — cross-vendor agreement is evidence against fabrication, and disagreement is worth seeing. 3 of 3 models answered, overall confidence high. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
c.apple.news is a subdomain of apple.news and the app is Apple's own News app (com.apple.news), so this is most likely a first-party Apple backend endpoint rather than a third-party tracker; I do not have registry data confirming ownership, only the bundle-ID match. The 'nothing declared' fields look like missing label data rather than an affirmative 'no data collected' claim, so I cannot conclude an undisclosed flow from what is provided.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain c.apple.news appears associated with Apple News based on its domain name, but no ownership or traffic-purpose evidence is provided. With no evidence of what data is transmitted, the contact cannot be determined to imply an undisclosed data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain c.apple.news is owned and operated by Apple for the Apple News service, matching the first-party app bundle com.apple.news. First-party communication for core app service operation does not imply an undisclosed third-party data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.apple.news | — | 4 | 142 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.apple.stocks | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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