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gsp-ssl.ls.apple.com
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
gsp-ssl.ls.apple.com is an Apple-operated hostname (ls = location services) in apple.com, contacted by Apple's own Maps app, so this is first-party infrastructure functionally required for geolocation/map services rather than a third-party tracker. The empty declarations most likely reflect that this preinstalled Apple app has no App Store privacy label available to us rather than an omitted disclosure, so I cannot conclude the flow is undisclosed.
OpenAI — first-party
The hostname is under apple.com and is plausibly an Apple Maps service endpoint, so it is most likely first-party. The contact alone does not establish a data flow that exceeds the app's declared privacy label.
Google Gemini — first-party
gsp-ssl.ls.apple.com is an Apple-owned domain used for Location Services and Maps infrastructure, making it a first-party endpoint for Apple Maps. This essential first-party network traffic does not imply an undisclosed third-party data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.apple.Maps | — | 7 | 569 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
| Messages | — | 7 | 278 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
| Fly Delta | — | 7 | 10 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
| ChatGPT | — | 6 | 12 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-07-30 |
com.apple.mobilecal | — | 4 | 29 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| OpenTable | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Costco Wholesale | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| trivago: Compare hotel prices | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.weatherradarforecastlive.radar | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.yelp.yelpiphone | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.apple.mobileslideshow | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-30 |
| My BMW | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-29 |
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