Is CBP MPC safe to use?

CBP MPC integrates 0 third-party SDKs. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and User Content. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does CBP MPC need?

CBP MPC requests 4 iOS permissions: Camera, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Face ID.

What data does CBP MPC collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, CBP MPC collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and User Content. It collects User Content and Identifiers not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does CBP MPC have?

CBP MPC integrates 0 third-party SDKs.

Does CBP MPC access your location?

Yes. CBP MPC requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is used to suggest nearby CBP locations while preparing a submission. Some CBP locations must verify your location during the submission process.".

Does CBP MPC access your camera?

CBP MPC requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "CBP MPC requires camera access to capture photos of travelers and to scan travel documents". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to CBP MPC?

Other travel apps include Air Canada , Aeroméxico , Air France , Airalo , Airbnb , and Priority Pass+ . Each app takes a different approach to travel and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Travel · Privacy report

Mobile Passport Control

Free · ★4.9 · US Customs and Border Protection

Is CBP MPC safe?

Yes. It is one of the clean apps.

Our take. We found no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs in CBP MPC, and its own privacy label declares little or no data linked to you. For an app on your phone, that is what you want to see.

Privacy footprint · vs 103 travelMinimal

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical travel: 5

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical travel: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

CBP MPC links 2 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data CBP MPC ties to your identity.

Contact InfoUser Content

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

We found no advertising, analytics, or attribution SDKs from other companies in CBP MPC.

How it compares

Where it sits among travel.

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 travel app. CBP MPC sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

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 v4.2.1, 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 103 travel in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 5.