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.
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.
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But her emails!!!
Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?
I just learned it existed
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.
They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not “huh, I bet the government’s app is a peice of shit that’s tracking me”
hey i’m a bigfoot truther. his name is larry and he’s real into hugs
i mean that’s it. we don’t really have much beyond he sings like a moose that one time we let him use the shower. WHICH WAS A MISTAKE HE CLOGGED THE DAMN THING. but he sang like a moose.
There’s a lot of that, it is just that typical media does not cover them as they are not “interesting”. Like, there was a Surrounded debate where they brought a lot of conspiracy theorists with one journalist, and iirc they only talked about one topic regarding the government, rest was just flat earth, aliens etc.
There are a lot of theorists that claim how much the government is lying about things, manipulating the masses etc, most of which is slowly coming true.
On a side note, if you have played GTA SA, you must have seen The Truth talking so much nonsense. I would like to share this as I have always found this very funny.
CJ: What’s with all the aluminum foil, man?
The Truth: Protection from mind control, dude.
CJ: Mind control?
The Truth: Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D’you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?
CJ: No.
The Truth: Twenty three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?
CJ: No, I don’t.
The Truth: Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?
CJ: Man, I’m seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!
Hehe.
23, really? I wonder if the writers included a RAW reference intentionally or by accident.
Look up 23 enigma. It is kind of real, has a Wikipedia page too.
Honestly, with this admin… I think pizzagate is one of those “every accusation is a confession” deals
Conspiracy theorists never actually believe in the actual conspiracies. No it’s always the lamp posts broadcasting nanobots into your blood. And not that the phone that has tracking capabilities is tracking you, in fact no conspiracy theorist ever has ever been worried about their iPhone or billionaires sending plenty text emails to each other about to listen activities.
The only conclusion I can reach from your post is that you know absolutely nothing about “conspiracy theorists”.
Thousands were banned from across the internet for questioning the official line about covid, meanwhile, it really was a lab leak. Just one example.
Different people have been wrong about conspiracies, others have been right about conspiracies; your “none have ever been worried about iPhone” claim is ludicrous. How do you come up with this? Why do you imagine random “factoids” with no basis in reality?
It’s kind of scary
No conspiracy theorists aren’t interested in seeking out actual conspiracies. They’re trying to make themselves feel important in a world that doesn’t care about them. So they find some special secret that only they know and that makes them feel important and claim the earth is flat.
As far as factoids are concerned where are you getting the evidence that COVID was a lab leak? That has never been confirmed.
Yeah, I thought the larger body of evidence all but proves that it was a wet market source.
It’s only paranoia when you’re wrong.
Is it paranoia though if they believe in a particular thing with no actual evidence and it just turns out that they’re partially correct by chance?
Because there are plenty of conspiracies along the lines of “the government is monitoring everyone” but it’s always been via nanobots in your blood or via psychic energies being emitted from 5G towers. It’s never “the government to tracking me with this GPS enabled device that I voluntarily purchased with my own money, now excuse me I have to make a rambling geotagged Facebook post the Gray Aliens”.
You are right. But my statement already includes these groups.
I don’t see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
I have been saving up for a router and wanted to support a company that sells devices that are compatible with as much open source software as possible.
This really sucks. If I had known this was going to happen randomly I would have prioritised saving up faster and just not spent it on other things. I had no idea I needed to prioritise this.
But like I say frequently about the US. It is a very prohibitionist country. You never know when the next thing you do or use will be criminalized or prohibited. Then you will be at risk of being arrested and in some cases even sent to a literal for profit private prison ran by a place like CoreCivic. It is fucked up.
Even if I were to get a router from a foreign manufacturer now, it likely won’t be legal for me to actually use it. The FCC could at the very least fine somebody depending on how this order will be enforced.
There is also possibly going to be a risk of it being seized at the border.
Who knows how this will even be enforced since the vast vast majority of consumer routers are not even made in the US. I don’t even know of one truly made in the US. But a router from a foreign open source focused company will likely be considered even more of a “foreign manufacturer”.
When that news broke all circles spoke how there are no American routers that fit the description… Yet, some kickback buddy who imports them from China probably gets an exception soon, so you can get the same hardware as before, just more expensive
That means we have to invade a foreign country who makes routers, because we don’t make routers in America.
America First!
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
Official propaganda delivered right to your push notifications:
Wow. That’s North Korea levels of propaganda.
Why would anyone download this?
If you’re so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
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,)
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!
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.
Freedom as a tag line not as a promise.
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.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Crazy times ahead for everyone.
Also Red Star OS
That channel was Mrwhosetheboss
Its all projection from the west 🤷♀️
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.
It’s the latest family scam. Barron has a net worth of $150,000,000, mostly from his portion of his own crypto scam.
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
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
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.
Unrelated prostitution story:
So there was big prostitution scandal in my medium sized city once, and it hit all the papers. The rings that get all the press are the ones that are run by a MADAM. Pimp-run prostitution is boring. Put a woman in charge, and it makes headlines.
It was literally front page news, so I come into work, and ask my office mate about it, and he says “I used to work with a guy with same last name [which was unusual], I wonder…” and he calls him.
Was that guy pissed! As he said at the top of his lungs so even I could even hear it: “THAT’S MY EX-WIFE. THE FUCKING BITCH STARTED A PROSTITUTION RING USING MY FAMILY NAME!”
Dude, seriously. Work phone/personal phone. The two never touch in any way, not even for so much as alternate contact method. I don’t want my bank calling my work phone. I don’t want my clients calling my personal. When Im not working the work phone gets set down next to the bed and doesn’t get picked up again until the next time Im getting up and ready for work.
I truly do not understand how people can even tolerate having both of these parts of their lives on the same device. Is the hardship of two phones really that insurmountable for people when the benefits are so readily apparent?
My work phone for my old job, lived at work. When I clocked off, unless management really wanted to go dragging my actual cell number out of my resume, I was unreachable. If it’s that much of an emergency, you can get someone else.
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!
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
Scary thing is that this is EXTREMELY common…
scary thing is most people have no idea. scroll cats 🤷
…the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost…
