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.
Are journalists required to download the shit App?
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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Anybody, anybody at all, who believes that they aren’t going to be doing something really machiavellian, after operating on a “million deportations per year” paradigm, needs their head examined.
After dictatorship is activated, it’ll be required for citizens.
Wait & see…
( & if they forgot to put spyware into their app this time, that doesn’t mean it won’t come in in an update. )
Get cynical: evidence warrants it, nowadays…
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PS: I have NO idea why a partial-version of this comment got multi-posted, while I was still writing it.
Sorry.
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
That means we have to invade a foreign country who makes routers, because we don’t make routers in America.
America First!
Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.
I’m going to have to check my mother’s phone.
Morons with a red hat?
Don’t you go dragging Linux into this /s
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.
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
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
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
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/722346/#trackers
3 trackers is surprisingly few
Why does it have the Huawei services SDK inside of it?
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
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.
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,)
Its all projection from the west 🤷♀️
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.
But her emails!!!
And by “White House App” I’m going to assume they mean Twitter, since the article is REALLY light on specifics.
No, there’s a new “Official” The White House app for Android / iOS.
