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.
locationhistoryplacedetails-pa.googleapis.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
locationhistoryplacedetails-pa.googleapis.com is a Google-owned googleapis.com endpoint (the '-pa' suffix is Google's convention for internal/private API services), so for Google Maps this is first-party backend traffic, apparently supporting the Location History/Timeline place-details feature. The app's label already declares collecting precise and approximate location, app interactions, and user IDs, so the contact implies no data flow beyond what is disclosed.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a Google APIs subdomain and its location-history/place-details function is consistent with Google Maps' first-party location and search features. The app label declares precise and approximate location, search history, identifiers, and related activity data, so this contact is not clearly outside the disclosed flows.
Google Gemini — first-party
The contacted domain is owned by Google and serves as first-party API infrastructure for Google Maps features like location history. This contact is consistent with the app's declared collection of precise location and user identifiers.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 9 | 2026-07-30 |
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