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White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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So their app description is lying?
Probably copy-pasted from some other app ... which is also lying about data security.
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Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?
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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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.
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.
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.
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And by "White House App" I'm going to assume they mean Twitter, since the article is REALLY light on specifics.
No, there's a new "Official" The White House app for Android / iOS.
If the gps data goes to a 3rd party I wonder who owns those servers. Palantir?
Are journalists required to download the shit App?