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.

  • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

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

    Freedom™

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      6 hours ago

      I thought of the one app India was trying to force all phones sold in the country to have. That one was also tracking locations.

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        9 hours ago

        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,)

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          dw, your data is also still sent to the oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state

          But the good news is the government has to pay them our tax dollars to spy on us instead of getting it for free or using that money to benefit the populace. Yay dystopia!

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          dw, your data is also still sent to the oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state

          Oh thank God. You had me worried for a second there that Daddy Freedom and Mommy Liberty didn’t care about me anymore.