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mapsmobilesdks-pa.googleapis.com
classified as unknown · 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 medium — classification split: anthropic=unknown, openai=unknown, gemini=cdn. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — unknown
The domain is on Google's googleapis.com infrastructure and the hostname suggests a backend endpoint for Google's Maps mobile SDKs, which would be a functional map-data/service API rather than a tracking, analytics, or ad endpoint — but I cannot verify its exact purpose, so I prefer 'unknown'. Contact with a mapping service API is not by itself evidence of a data flow outside the app's declared collection (which includes device IDs and diagnostics), though a reviewer may want to check whether precise/coarse Location is being sent, since Location is not declared.
OpenAI — unknown
The domain appears associated with Google Maps mobile SDK services, but ownership and the specific data transmitted are not provided. The app's label already declares device identifiers and location-adjacent address data, so an undisclosed flow cannot be determined from this contact alone.
Google Gemini — cdn
The domain mapsmobilesdks-pa.googleapis.com is owned by Google and serves functional mapping resources and data for the Google Maps Mobile SDK. The available data does not indicate an undisclosed data flow beyond standard app functionality.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amex | — | 7 | 44 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
| Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.hotels.HotelsNearMe | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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