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White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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