...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...
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But her emails!!!!
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.
Kinda not shocked at all. Frankly, would have been more shocked if they WEREN'T tracking us.
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.
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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