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.
restrictedapps-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
googleapis.com is Google's own API host, so a contact from Google's own Search app to restrictedapps-pa.googleapis.com is a first-party backend call (the '-pa' suffix denotes a Google private API endpoint); I do not know the specific function of the 'restrictedapps' service. The app's label already declares broad first-party collection including installed apps and device IDs, so nothing here implies an undeclared data flow.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is under googleapis.com and is most likely a Google-operated API endpoint used by Google's own app. The label declares extensive collection categories, so this contact alone does not imply an uncovered data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain restrictedapps-pa.googleapis.com is owned by Google, making it a first-party endpoint for the Google app. The app's store privacy label declares collecting extensive data types, including installed apps and device IDs.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google (Search) | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-30 |
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