Is ABC7NY safe to use?

ABC7NY integrates 14 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It includes 6 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ABC7NY need?

ABC7NY requests 6 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Face ID.

What data does ABC7NY collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ABC7NY declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It collects Location, Contact Info, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does ABC7NY have?

ABC7NY integrates 14 third-party SDKs. 6 for advertising, 5 for analytics, and 1 for crash reporting.

Does ABC7NY use Google SDKs?

Yes. ABC7NY includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Cast, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), and Google AdMob. These are primarily used for advertising.

Does ABC7NY use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. ABC7NY requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does ABC7NY access your location?

Yes. ABC7NY requests location access. The developer states: "Your current location is used for weather forecasts.".

Does ABC7NY access your camera?

ABC7NY requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Camera access is required to take photos and submit them". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ABC7NY run in the background?

Yes. ABC7NY registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ABC7NY?

Other news apps include 5-0 Radio Pro , ABC News , AJ English , Creators , AppAdvice , and Aungbarlay . Each app takes a different approach to news and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

News · Privacy report

ABC 7 New York

Free · ★4.8 · Disney

Is ABC7NY safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. ABC7NY is built with more third-party tracking code than 79% of the news we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you3 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

ABC7NY links 3 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data ABC7NY ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Contact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among news.

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 new app. ABC7NY 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 14 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

6advertising

5analytics

1crash reporting

2standard libraries

11 of the 14 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

Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Open Measurement (Disney) · Programmatic Access Library · Taboola · Google UMP (Consent) · Conviva · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze Location

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob

Analytics SDKAnalytics

mParticle

Standard libraries2 · 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 v8.84.0, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.