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A previous version of this article stated that the White House app was actively tracking users' GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes via OneSignal's SDK. This characterisation, which circulated widely on X, including in posts that accumulated hundreds of thousands of views, has since been contested by independent technical analysis. Multiple developers who reviewed the decompiled code confirmed that while the GPS tracking constants exist within OneSignal's bundled SDK, the app does not call that capability. No location permission prompt is issued to users upon installation, and OneSignal's documentation states that location data is not collected unless a developer explicitly enables the feature. The GPS code is most likely residual from the SDK template rather than a deliberate implementation. This article has been updated to reflect that distinction.

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But her emails!!!!

Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?

Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?

its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true

LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why would anyone download this?

Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.

If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.

Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?

...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...

Scary thing is that this is EXTREMELY common....

Cheesy electron wrapper does some tracking. News at 9.

The researcher's page referenced by this article: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.

Freedom™

This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.

Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.

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.

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.

Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three...

BUT HER EMAILS

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

sus

To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.