Foot Locker has been identified as America’s most invasive shopping app, scoring 100 out of 100 in a new privacy analysis.
Tenscope analyzed the privacy policies of the 100 most popular shopping apps in the United States, calculating an “invasiveness score” based on cross-app tracking, third-party advertising, and marketing data usage.
Here are the key findings from the report:
* The most popular shopping apps are the least invasive. Temu ranks #2 in App Store with an invasiveness score of just 2 out of 100, while Shop by Shopify ranks #3 with a score of 0.
* Foot Locker and Dick’s Sporting Goods are owned by the same parent company but have a 97-point difference in invasiveness scores (100 vs. 3), despite offering similar athletic retail functionality.
* 24 apps (24% of those analyzed) share purchase history with third-party advertisers, while 19 apps share email addresses directly with advertising networks.
* Nine apps track browsing history across other websites and apps, including Costco, eBay, and Walgreens.
“It’s clear that apps don’t have to spy on you to be successful. The most popular shopping apps in America, like Temu and Shop by Shopify, have some of the lowest invasiveness scores, proving that consumers respond well to privacy-respecting businesses,” Jovan Babovic, co-founder of Tenscope, said
You can find the full rankings and data for all 100 apps here.
Methodology
Tenscope analyzed the App Store privacy disclosures of the 100 most popular shopping apps in the United States in November 2025. Apps were scored on a 0-100 scale based on data used for cross-app tracking, data shared with third-party advertisers, and data used for developer marketing. Each category was weighted to reflect the relative invasiveness of each practice.
