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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magnetosphere@fedia.io · 195 pts · 130d
This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 130d
The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 129d
My favorite formulation is:
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works · 142 pts · 130d
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 76 pts · 130d
Microsoft Recall
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 130d
The key difference is, instead of your data winding up in an oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state, it goes to the oppressive, kleptocratic adtech industry (dw, your data is also still sent to the oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state,)
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
But the good news is the government has to pay them our tax dollars to spy on us instead of getting it for free or using that money to benefit the populace. Yay dystopia!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
Oh thank God. You had me worried for a second there that Daddy Freedom and Mommy Liberty didn't care about me anymore.
sompreno@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 130d
Freedom as a tag line not as a promise.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 130d
Also Red Star OS
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
I thought of the one app India was trying to force all phones sold in the country to have. That one was also tracking locations.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 129d
Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Crazy times ahead for everyone.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
That channel was Mrwhosetheboss
beansoup@lemmy.ca · -9 pts · 130d
Its all projection from the west 🤷♀️
osanna@lemmy.vg · 98 pts · 130d
Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 130d
I'm going to have to check my mother's phone.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 125d
I'm so sorry. Godspeed friend, we're cheering you on around the world. Hope all goes well for you and you loved ones in these particularly trying times
xelar@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 130d
Those who lost money on Trump coin.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 129d
HAHAHAHAHA
With all material pain this man has inflicted, I totally forgot about his crypto scam.
What the fuck, he’s so cartoonishly evil.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 129d
It's the latest family scam. Barron has a net worth of $150,000,000, mostly from his portion of his own crypto scam.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 11 pts · 130d
Morons with a red hat?
Alk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 129d
Don't you go dragging Linux into this /s
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 130d
Well ppl are actually installing the spyware thats my companies HR app. They simply dont know the extent
osanna@lemmy.vg · 11 pts · 130d
if it's a work phone, sure, I can understand. but if it's a personal phone, do NOT conduct any work related stuff on it. Especially do NOT install any apps from. likewise, do NOT do any personal stuff on a work phone. Keep them completely separated. Just my 2c
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 130d
On my first day at a new job in 1998, I watched a guy get escorted out of his office and the building carrying his stuff in a cardboard box. My use of the verb "escort" is ironic because it turned out that the guy had been running a prostitution ring. He'd gotten an 800 number that redirected to his office phone number, and he kept track of everything (names and phone numbers of his clients and girls and records of every arrangement) in a spreadsheet on his work computer. He only got busted because the company upgraded everybody's PC and had techs look through all the old PCs to make sure nothing important was going to get deleted; this dude had named his spreadsheet something like "call girls.xls" and had it on his Windows desktop.
This seemed amazing to me, but after working there a few months I realized how somebody could get that sloppy. IT Security at this place was fucking lax. None of us programmers had an identifiable boss or anything like clearly-defined responsibilities, or even rigid work hours. I remember one stretch for about a month where in a room with 50 people in it, all everybody did all day was call into the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hotline and try to get onto the show.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 129d
Unrelated prostitution story:
So there was big prostitution scandal in my medium sized city once, and it hit all the papers. The rings that get all the press are the ones that are run by a MADAM. Pimp-run prostitution is boring. Put a woman in charge, and it makes headlines.
It was literally front page news, so I come into work, and ask my office mate about it, and he says "I used to work with a guy with same last name [which was unusual], I wonder..." and he calls him.
Was that guy pissed! As he said at the top of his lungs so even I could even hear it: "THAT'S MY EX-WIFE. THE FUCKING BITCH STARTED A PROSTITUTION RING USING MY FAMILY NAME!"
Angrydeuce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Dude, seriously. Work phone/personal phone. The two never touch in any way, not even for so much as alternate contact method. I don't want my bank calling my work phone. I don't want my clients calling my personal. When Im not working the work phone gets set down next to the bed and doesn't get picked up again until the next time Im getting up and ready for work.
I truly do not understand how people can even tolerate having both of these parts of their lives on the same device. Is the hardship of two phones really that insurmountable for people when the benefits are so readily apparent?
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
My work phone for my old job, lived at work. When I clocked off, unless management really wanted to go dragging my actual cell number out of my resume, I was unreachable. If it's that much of an emergency, you can get someone else.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 130d
If you operate that within the EU, you better know what you are doing, hope it never gets leaked, or don't do half of what you are implying here.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 130d
I love me some whistle-blowing!
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
The app is external I've just done integrations with the API but I wouldn'tve trusted that app with the fact that I need air to breathe should have it been my choice
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 130d
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 130d
This is tracking the press who need it for their job
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 130d
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 130d
If that were even remotely true hopefully the press is smart enough to install on a burner "work" phone that sits in their desk drawer, or on a secondary account that is logged out by default.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
that would still require the OS or user to spoof a location to actually prevent tracking. I hope they'd do that, but I wouldn't expect them to.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 129d
Which? Leaving it in a desk prevents tracking because the desk isn't following you. Putting it on an account that is fully logged out by default means it only gets your location when you switch to that account (which you can control).
I have a separate user in GrapheneOS for service accounts like Amazon or my Philips Hue lights, and that account is fully blocked for running in the background. Once a month or so when I need one of those apps I'm sure they all phone home, but their data is heavily limited.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
I thought it was a given that, if it's a phone app, you're likely to want to carry it with you, not leave it on a desk with your computer.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
That's probably why they did it. They know trump is most likely to be shot at by one of their own nuts.
nuko147@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 129d
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 129d
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 129d
That means we have to invade a foreign country who makes routers, because we don't make routers in America.
America First!
sleepyplacebo@rblind.com · 2 pts · 129d
I have been saving up for a router and wanted to support a company that sells devices that are compatible with as much open source software as possible.
This really sucks. If I had known this was going to happen randomly I would have prioritised saving up faster and just not spent it on other things. I had no idea I needed to prioritise this.
But like I say frequently about the US. It is a very prohibitionist country. You never know when the next thing you do or use will be criminalized or prohibited. Then you will be at risk of being arrested and in some cases even sent to a literal for profit private prison ran by a place like CoreCivic. It is fucked up.
Even if I were to get a router from a foreign manufacturer now, it likely won't be legal for me to actually use it. The FCC could at the very least fine somebody depending on how this order will be enforced.
There is also possibly going to be a risk of it being seized at the border.
Who knows how this will even be enforced since the vast vast majority of consumer routers are not even made in the US. I don't even know of one truly made in the US. But a router from a foreign open source focused company will likely be considered even more of a "foreign manufacturer".
Burnoutdv@feddit.org · 1 pts · 127d
When that news broke all circles spoke how there are no American routers that fit the description... Yet, some kickback buddy who imports them from China probably gets an exception soon, so you can get the same hardware as before, just more expensive
obinice@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 130d
The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it's made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it's a big one to be fair).
E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
It was already a no from me, dawg, you don't have to convince me.
No, but seriously. Everything he tries to implement is like 90'S cartoon level evil and sloppy. I bet we could get him monologuing.
73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 130d
People don't store signing keys with source code
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 9 pts · 130d
Or at least they shouldn't.
People crawl GitHub for credentials and they are luck a lot.
bluetoofs@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 130d
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info · 61 pts · 129d
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 129d
I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.
They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not "huh, I bet the government's app is a peice of shit that's tracking me"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 129d
hey i'm a bigfoot truther. his name is larry and he's real into hugs
i mean that's it. we don't really have much beyond he sings like a moose that one time we let him use the shower. WHICH WAS A MISTAKE HE CLOGGED THE DAMN THING. but he sang like a moose.
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 129d
There's a lot of that, it is just that typical media does not cover them as they are not "interesting". Like, there was a Surrounded debate where they brought a lot of conspiracy theorists with one journalist, and iirc they only talked about one topic regarding the government, rest was just flat earth, aliens etc.
There are a lot of theorists that claim how much the government is lying about things, manipulating the masses etc, most of which is slowly coming true.
On a side note, if you have played GTA SA, you must have seen The Truth talking so much nonsense. I would like to share this as I have always found this very funny.
CJ: What's with all the aluminum foil, man?
The Truth: Protection from mind control, dude.
CJ: Mind control?
The Truth: Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D'you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?
CJ: No.
The Truth: Twenty three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?
CJ: No, I don't.
The Truth: Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?
CJ: Man, I'm seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!
Hehe.
debil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
23, really? I wonder if the writers included a RAW reference intentionally or by accident.
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 128d
Look up 23 enigma. It is kind of real, has a Wikipedia page too.
debil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 127d
Yeah, the enigma and RAW are kind of tightly connected so I guess it was intentional.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Honestly, with this admin... I think pizzagate is one of those "every accusation is a confession" deals
echodot@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 129d
Conspiracy theorists never actually believe in the actual conspiracies. No it's always the lamp posts broadcasting nanobots into your blood. And not that the phone that has tracking capabilities is tracking you, in fact no conspiracy theorist ever has ever been worried about their iPhone or billionaires sending plenty text emails to each other about to listen activities.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 129d
The only conclusion I can reach from your post is that you know absolutely nothing about "conspiracy theorists".
Thousands were banned from across the internet for questioning the official line about covid, meanwhile, it really was a lab leak. Just one example.
Different people have been wrong about conspiracies, others have been right about conspiracies; your "none have ever been worried about iPhone" claim is ludicrous. How do you come up with this? Why do you imagine random "factoids" with no basis in reality?
It's kind of scary
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 129d
No conspiracy theorists aren't interested in seeking out actual conspiracies. They're trying to make themselves feel important in a world that doesn't care about them. So they find some special secret that only they know and that makes them feel important and claim the earth is flat.
As far as factoids are concerned where are you getting the evidence that COVID was a lab leak? That has never been confirmed.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
Yeah, I thought the larger body of evidence all but proves that it was a wet market source.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
It's only paranoia when you're wrong.
echodot@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 129d
Is it paranoia though if they believe in a particular thing with no actual evidence and it just turns out that they're partially correct by chance?
Because there are plenty of conspiracies along the lines of "the government is monitoring everyone" but it's always been via nanobots in your blood or via psychic energies being emitted from 5G towers. It's never "the government to tracking me with this GPS enabled device that I voluntarily purchased with my own money, now excuse me I have to make a rambling geotagged Facebook post the Gray Aliens".
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
You are right. But my statement already includes these groups.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
I don't see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 130d
If you're stupid enough to install that on your phone, you deserve whatever it is that you get. I'm surprised it doesn't periodically send your browsing history to the fuhrer for inspection. Wouldn't want those sheep getting the wrong thoughts.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 129d
That's the ultimate objective, of course. That, and tracking every opinion you post on social media.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 129d
K, I think they all deserve high velocity therapy to fix their broken brains.
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
Sounds good to me. Size 9 works great for that kind of therapy.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 129d
A little Flying Lead Poisoning?
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 130d
So their app description is lying?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 88 pts · 130d
The Trump regime, lying?
This is a thing unheard of!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 130d
Must be the Democrat's fault somehow!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 130d
Probably copy-pasted from some other app ... which is also lying about data security.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
Like how Truth Social is copy pasted from Mastodon.
modus@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 129d
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 129d
Official propaganda delivered right to your push notifications:
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 129d
Wow. That's North Korea levels of propaganda.
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc · 42 pts · 129d
Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 129d
I just learned it existed
Jerry@feddit.online · 40 pts · 130d
According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.
And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.
Casterial@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 130d
Why would anyone install government shit on their phone
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 130d
From the US government, I completely agree. But a functional government helps and supports its citizens and there are plenty of ways an app on your phone can help. Admittedly that's pretty ideological, but at the very least I'd argue there is a spectrum
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 130d
It should just be a website and not something that needs to live on my phone 24/7
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 129d
Oh yeah, I didn't intend my comment to say that this specific app makes sense, just that some can
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 129d
In a hypothetical socialist utopia with rigorously defined and enforced guarantees of rights and liberties, government-owned platforms can and should replace corporate-owned ones.
Imagine a concept like facebook/instagram/twitter, except it's open-source and transparent, and its users are in control of its governance through direct democracy and collective ownership. Plus a set of rules defining explicitly what they can't do, including all predatory, coercive, manipulative, and profiteering practices that are the industry standard now.
Obviously it's not a simple solution. Government control ≠ fair, equitable, and transparent. That's why I framed this as a hypothetical. It requires that socialist utopia, collective ownership, direct democracy, and open-source format. But it is possible, and we shouldn't let our imaginations be hampered by what exists today, in this system.
So many things could be done better with centralized planning, but that depends on who is in charge of that planning. And that's why we need direct democracy and collective ownership. Those things can actually be enabled by technology, despite the fact that technology is currently being used to hamper it.
Like, report a pothole on your maps app, and the state repairs it within a week. Go to the open forum section of your social media, and discuss the items on the upcoming bill proposal with the members of your community. Start a citizen's initiative by filling out a simple form that's accessible to everyone and posting it in the right section of the platform. Audit your local government's budget/expenses as easily as navigating to the right tab.
There's a better way of doing the things we're already doing. We just have to dare to imagine, to believe, and to persevere until our vision becomes a reality.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 129d
What you wrote reminded me of a minor idea that's been floating in my head: I kind of wish that more governments did something like requiring adding your business to OpenStreetMaps as part of registering the business with the government, or even just publishing the basic data (location, opening hours, ...) somewhere that all the maps apps sync with
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 129d
That would be cool, but isn't OSM the one with the wonky governance issues? A bunch of devs split from them and forked the source code, which they now develop as CoMaps. It's a much more solid option for that reason
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 129d
From Wikipedia, not quite but I learnt so something, so thanks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoMaps
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 129d
Ah, I see. I had it confused for Organic Maps. Thanks for clarifying
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 130d
Don't you follow and obey Orange Jesus?
Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
Quite a few governments make it mandatory, either as an only way to complete a required process, or (like my govt) make any alternate options, like phone or Web, an absolute nightmare
Stache_@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 130d
It’s because there were SO many downloads, more than two BILLION I’m told, by some really fantastic people who made the app, this wonderful app, that we hit something called an INTEGER LIMIT. Can you believe that? We had so many of you GREAT Americans sign up, that it just completely broke the App Store. It’s just incredible.
/s
Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 130d
8 bit I assume
prex@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 130d
One bit.
Haquer@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 130d
More like
We hit something called pulls up paper
int... inta... intajur? limit. what a word
fonix232@fedia.io · 18 pts · 130d
The Play Store has recently (I think about 3 years ago?) introduced delayed updates for things like download counts because they were battling faked statistics (e.g. the download counter could be manipulated by bot farms), so now downloads are accumulated and checked against users actually using the app and having it on their devices - which takes time to update so IIRC they now only update that counter every month. Hence the 0+ downloads.
Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 130d
So they're verifying downloads, but not reviews?
fonix232@fedia.io · 1 pts · 129d
Both are verified by an automated system.
which is why fake reviews slip through but fake downloads don't really (download count is easy to verify with device feedback, fake reviews require a proper system...)
ptz@dubvee.org · 15 pts · 130d
509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 129d
One thing I don't think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app's users on a server that isn't even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 129d
Butter emails
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 129d
If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 129d
The researcher's page referenced by this article: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 1 pts · 129d
Thank you!
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 129d
Why would anyone download this?
PolarPirate@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 129d
Scary thing is that this is EXTREMELY common....
m3t00@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
scary thing is most people have no idea. scroll cats 🤷
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 15 pts · 130d
sus
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
the reason the rich buy bodies is to bury golf courses in them i'm calling it now
rmuk@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 129d
Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three...
BUT HER EMAILS
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 129d
BUT SLEEPY JOE WANTED FREE TRANSGENDER FOR IMMIGRANT DRAG QUEENS IN COMMUNIST SCOOLS
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 129d
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 130d
Surprised=False
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 130d
i installed it on my burner and it's asking permission to check my buttholes
idealotus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
All 2+ of them?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
yup all of them. it is not a gentle lover.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
"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."
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 130d
Are you a preteen? If not then you're not young enough for them to be interested in!!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
No like they are really interesting. Every time I go to the doctor if there is someone new they beg to look up them.
I know I ended up being a really hard final exam question, but I may have been a famous case study and I'm not sure how to ask without it getting really weird.
I say no, by the way. You gotta pay if you want a peek
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
Did you accept?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
Nah i sent them the photos years ago
droopy4096@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 129d
...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 128d
But her emails!!!!
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 129d
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 129d
I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 129d
Kinda not shocked at all. Frankly, would have been more shocked if they WEREN'T tracking us.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 2 pts · 129d
I would have been more concerned if the app didn't send data to Palantir. For now they still have to trick people to be 100% tracked, soon they won't need anything. When they can passively track us, we are fucked. All it takes is biometrics + identity(name, ssn, driver license) + location(from your active devices) and tracking in apps is not needed anymore.
morriscox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 128d
This is at the bottom of the article.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
Anybody, anybody at all, who believes that they aren't going to be doing something really machiavellian, after operating on a "million deportations per year" paradigm, needs their head examined.
After dictatorship is activated, it'll be required for citizens.
Wait & see..
( & if they forgot to put spyware into their app this time, that doesn't mean it won't come in in an update. )
Get cynical: evidence warrants it, nowadays..
_ /\ _
PS: I have NO idea why a partial-version of this comment got multi-posted, while I was still writing it.
Sorry.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 127d
Do you honestly believe the federal government needs people to install the official Whitehouse app in order to track their location?
If so, lol.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 77d
Competitive-narcissism:
I expect ALL such sociopaths/psychopaths ( incorporated-"persons" or individuals ) to be competing against each-other.
Why would they share??
There's peer-reviewed research published that doctors demand their own CT-scan of a patient, even if an already-existing recent-scan is on file, even though that's going to increase that-patient's cancer-likelihood..
Narcissism's real!
It alters behavior in predictable ways..
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Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 129d
Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 129d
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.
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 129d
I wonder if that dumb ass has downloaded his own app and let a third party track the POTUS in real time. I almost feel sorry for the agents assigned to his security detail.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
It's already trivial to track the president's approximate location if you're a drone operator or hobbyist pilot because he has a 50 mile diameter no-fly zone centered on him at all times, which is plainly visible on the FAA maps.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 129d
No not really
pirate2377@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 129d
m3t00@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
shocked there's spying going on... https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?t=24
NutWrench@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
And by "White House App" I'm going to assume they mean Twitter, since the article is REALLY light on specifics.
hdsrob@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
No, there's a new "Official" The White House app for Android / iOS.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
If the gps data goes to a 3rd party I wonder who owns those servers. Palantir?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
and they think we're stupid enough to install it willingly
rmuk@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 129d
Given how far Tim Apple's tongue has snaked up inside Trump's fat ass this last year I wouldn't worry too much about the "willingly" bit.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 129d
U2 was a test run.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
Are journalists required to download the shit App?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 130d
Gross.
brb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 129d
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/722346/#trackers
3 trackers is surprisingly few
FG_3479@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Why does it have the Huawei services SDK inside of it?
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 129d
Cheesy electron wrapper does some tracking. News at 9.