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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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[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

But her emails!!!!

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda not shocked at all. Frankly, would have been more shocked if they WEREN'T tracking us.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months 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 7 points 2 months 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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[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago
[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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