Is CBS Sports safe to use?

CBS Sports integrates 27 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 16 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does CBS Sports need?

CBS Sports requests 13 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does CBS Sports collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, CBS Sports declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects Location, Contacts, Diagnostics, and Other Data not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does CBS Sports have?

CBS Sports integrates 27 third-party SDKs. 16 for advertising, 3 for analytics, and 7 for other.

Does CBS Sports use Facebook tracking?

Yes. CBS Sports includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Login. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does CBS Sports use Google SDKs?

Yes. CBS Sports includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Cast, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does CBS Sports use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. CBS Sports requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does CBS Sports access your location?

Yes. CBS Sports requests location access. The developer states: "CBS Sports would like to use your location so you can stream your local games and find nearby teams.".

Does CBS Sports access your camera or microphone?

CBS Sports requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Allow camera access to attach photos to tweets". Microphone access is for "Allow CBS Sports to access the device microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does CBS Sports access your contacts?

Yes. CBS Sports requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Allow CBS Sports to access contacts".

Does CBS Sports run in the background?

Yes. CBS Sports registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to CBS Sports?

Other sports apps include 18Birdies , 365Scores , Action , Alt , Arccos , and MLB . Each app takes a different approach to sports and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Sports · Privacy report

CBS Sports App: Scores & News

Free · ★4.7 · CBS Interactive

Is CBS Sports safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. CBS Sports is built with more third-party tracking code than 98% of the sports we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies19 · a lot

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

CBS Sports links 5 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data CBS Sports ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Contact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among sports.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one sport app. CBS Sports sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 27 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 19 are third-party trackers.

16advertising

3analytics

8standard libraries

19 of the 27 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Confiant Ad Quality · Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Nimbus Ads Core · Nimbus Ads · Nimbus Ads Render · Nimbus Ads Render Static · Nimbus Ads Render Video · Nimbus Ads Request · Open Measurement SDK (Nimbus) · Taboola · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement · Mux Analytics

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries8 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v11.54.1, 2026-04-03.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 117 sports in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.