This page aggregates measured, corroborated evidence: donors' iPhones recorded apps contacting this domain, every claim below was reported by separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (later rows for an approved app inherit its verdict). A contact is a measurement, not an accusation — it does not show what data was sent.
images-mercury.mzstatic.com
classified as cdn · 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 — cdn
mzstatic.com is Apple's own static asset/media delivery domain used for App Store artwork and screenshots, so this is a first-party CDN fetch by Apple's own App Store client rather than a third-party tracker. No data flow beyond expected first-party asset retrieval is implied, and pre-installed Apple system apps do not carry a conventional App Store privacy label to compare against, so undisclosed is not established.
OpenAI — cdn
The mzstatic.com domain is commonly used to deliver Apple-hosted static assets, and the images subdomain indicates image delivery. No ownership or data-flow evidence is provided showing collection or sharing beyond content delivery.
Google Gemini — cdn
images-mercury.mzstatic.com is Apple's static content delivery domain used to serve artwork and media assets for the App Store. Fetching standard media assets from a CDN for core app functionality does not imply undisclosed privacy label omissions.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.apple.AppStore | — | 7 | 18 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
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