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.
www.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
www.googleapis.com is Google's general API endpoint, and the app (com.google.Authenticator) is published by Google, so this is a first-party service contact likely used for account/sync or backup APIs. The app's label already declares collecting account identifiers and diagnostics, so nothing here implies a data flow outside the declared categories.
OpenAI — first-party
www.googleapis.com is a Google API domain and is most likely first-party infrastructure for Google Authenticator. The app’s privacy label declares several relevant data categories, so the contact alone does not establish an undeclared data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain www.googleapis.com is operated by Google, making it a first-party service endpoint for Google Authenticator. This routine first-party API traffic does not conflict with the app's declared privacy disclosures.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Authenticator | — | 7 | 60 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
| Amex | — | 7 | 28 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-30 |
com.google.OnHub | — | 4 | 28 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| YouTube | — | 4 | 16 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Google Gemini | — | 4 | 8 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
com.hotels.HotelsNearMe | — | 4 | 4 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
| Gmail | — | 3 | 45 | 2026-07-30 |
| Google Maps | — | 3 | 15 | 2026-07-30 |
| Google (Search) | — | 3 | 3 | 2026-07-30 |
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