Is DHS TTP safe to use?

DHS TTP integrates 27 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, messaging, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, and Sensitive Info. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does DHS TTP need?

DHS TTP requests 2 iOS permissions: Camera and Calendars.

What data does DHS TTP collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, DHS TTP collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, and Sensitive Info.

How many SDKs does DHS TTP have?

DHS TTP integrates 27 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics, 13 for infrastructure, and 9 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does DHS TTP use Google SDKs?

Yes. DHS TTP includes 6 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Google Data Transport, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does DHS TTP access your camera?

DHS TTP requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "This app needs access to your camera to capture your photo and fingerprints". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does DHS TTP run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to DHS TTP?

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

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Free · ★4.8 · US Customs and Border Protection

Is DHS TTP safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. DHS TTP carries 2 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 4 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 103 travelModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical travel: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical travel: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

DHS TTP links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersSensitive Info

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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.

🇺🇸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 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. DHS TTP sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 27 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

2push & messaging

23standard libraries

2 of the 27 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Google Data Transport

Push & messaging2 · notifications

Standard libraries23 · 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 v1.11.0, 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.