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.
storage.live.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
storage.live.com is part of Microsoft's own Live/Microsoft-account services infrastructure, so contact from a Microsoft-published app is first-party rather than third-party tracking (it is consistent with the app's Microsoft-account cloud backup feature). Nothing here implies a data flow beyond the declared label, which already covers other user-generated content.
OpenAI — first-party
storage.live.com is a Microsoft-controlled storage service domain and is most likely first-party infrastructure for Microsoft Authenticator. The contact alone does not establish a data flow beyond the app's privacy label.
Google Gemini — first-party
storage.live.com is a Microsoft-owned storage domain, making this first-party infrastructure traffic for Microsoft Authenticator. First-party functional communication does not indicate an undisclosed third-party data flow.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Authenticator | — | 4 | 14 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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