Is CA DMV Wallet safe to use?

CA DMV Wallet integrates 10 third-party SDKs for infrastructure. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info, and Diagnostics. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does CA DMV Wallet need?

CA DMV Wallet requests 6 iOS permissions: Camera, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

How many SDKs does CA DMV Wallet have?

CA DMV Wallet integrates 10 third-party SDKs. 1 for infrastructure and 9 for other. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does CA DMV Wallet access your location?

Yes. CA DMV Wallet requests location access. The developer states: "Location access, per TSA requirement, during mDL presentation at the airport.".

Does CA DMV Wallet access your camera?

CA DMV Wallet requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Scan documents, capture selfies for photo matching and scan QR codes". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does CA DMV Wallet run in the background?

Yes. CA DMV Wallet registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to CA DMV Wallet?

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

CA DMV Wallet

Free · ★4.8 · California Department of Motor Vehicles

Is CA DMV Wallet safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares CA DMV Wallet links 4 categories of your data to your identity, including contact info, identifiers, sensitive info and diagnostics. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 103 travelModerate

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical travel: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical travel: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

CA DMV Wallet links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiersSensitive InfoDiagnostics

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

We found no advertising, analytics, or attribution SDKs from other companies in CA DMV Wallet.

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. CA DMV Wallet sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 10 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

10standard libraries

0 of the 10 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Standard libraries10 · 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 v0.2.24, 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.