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.
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.
Morons with a red hat?
Well ppl are actually installing the spyware thats my companies HR app. They simply dont know the extent
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
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.
I love me some whistle-blowing!
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™
Microsoft Recall
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
i installed it on my burner and it’s asking permission to check my buttholes
Are you a preteen? If not then you’re not young enough for them to be interested in!!
No like they are really interesting. Every time I go to the doctor if there is someone new they beg to look up them.
I know I ended up being a really hard final exam question, but I may have been a famous case study and I’m not sure how to ask without it getting really weird.
I say no, by the way. You gotta pay if you want a peek
Did you accept?
Nah i sent them the photos years ago
All 2+ of them?
yup all of them. it is not a gentle lover.
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.
So their app description is lying?
The Trump regime, lying?
This is a thing unheard of!
Must be the Democrat’s fault somehow!
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
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?
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.
So they’re verifying downloads, but not reviews?
Why would anyone install government shit on their phone
Don’t you follow and obey Orange Jesus?
From the US government, I completely agree. But a functional government helps and supports its citizens and there are plenty of ways an app on your phone can help. Admittedly that’s pretty ideological, but at the very least I’d argue there is a spectrum
It should just be a website and not something that needs to live on my phone 24/7
Quite a few governments make it mandatory, either as an only way to complete a required process, or (like my govt) make any alternate options, like phone or Web, an absolute nightmare
509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
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.
/s
More like
We hit something called pulls up paper
int… inta… intajur? limit. what a word
8 bit I assume
One bit.
and they think we’re stupid enough to install it willingly
