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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 4 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@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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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

sus

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago

Surprised=False

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (6 children)

i installed it on my burner and it's asking permission to check my buttholes

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"I know what you're going to say. What does the boob test tell you that the butthole test didn't. He's just being thorough."

[–] idealotus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All 2+ of them?

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?

[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if it's so Trump knows where all of his supporters actually are located. If you're trying to quell a future resistance, it would be easy to begin with pockets of the country that don't have the app installed.

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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

shocked there's spying going on... https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?t=24

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