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.
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.
Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three…
BUT HER EMAILS
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.
Butter emails
sus
Surprised=False
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/722346/#trackers
3 trackers is surprisingly few
Gross.
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.
Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.
Those who lost money on Trump coin.
HAHAHAHAHA
With all material pain this man has inflicted, I totally forgot about his crypto scam.
What the fuck, he’s so cartoonishly evil.
Morons with a red hat?
Well ppl are actually installing the spyware thats my companies HR app. They simply dont know the extent
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.
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
I love me some whistle-blowing!
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
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.
I’m going to have to check my mother’s phone.
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
Also Red Star OS
That channel was Mrwhosetheboss
Microsoft Recall
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,)
Freedom as a tag line not as a promise.
Its all projection from the west 🤷♀️
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
People don’t store signing keys with source code
Or at least they shouldn’t.
People crawl GitHub for credentials and they are luck a lot.
This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.
The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it
My favorite formulation is:
The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil.
Wow, you just can’t make this stuff up. The divide between the dumbest of Americans and normal/intelligent people couldn’t be wider right now.
…because we know whose phones this shit is on.
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
That’s probably why they did it. They know trump is most likely to be shot at by one of their own nuts.
This is tracking the press who need it for their job
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.
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
