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White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The Trump administration's newly launched White House App is under scrutiny after a software developer claimed to have found embedded code that tracks users' precise GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes and automatically syncs them to a third-party server. The claim, posted on 28 March 2026 by the X account @Thereallo1026, has drawn nearly 260,000 views and prompted questions about data collection practices in government-operated applications.

The post included what appeared to be decompiled source code from the app, revealing what the user described as OneSignal's 'full GPS pipeline compiled in.' According to the post, the code showed the app 'polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third-party server.' The White House has not publicly responded to the specific technical claims.

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[–] CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn man. Everything is a scam.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This lesson was taught to everyone... Literally everyone on fb social media... Over a decade ago.

Facebook's app did such crazy shit. And nobody blinked. I feel like me and maybe .001% of the user base left that platform when they heard the news.

Everyone else... They just stayed. They didn't care.

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I had to use a telescope to read this article from over here on GrapheneOS. I jumped facebook (privacy) and then reddit (API) when the nerds told me to. I think the fact that we're all on Lemmy means we're self-selected "early" adopters. I wonder if we also have a majority of Linux users.

[–] CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

A coworker of mine had to sign up for ID.me to get some money back from the IRS and in their TOS, they state that they sell your data. So even straight up government institutions are in on this shit.