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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    If you’re so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.

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    its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true

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        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”.

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      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”

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        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.

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        Honestly, with this admin… I think pizzagate is one of those “every accusation is a confession” deals

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      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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        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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    And by “White House App” I’m going to assume they mean Twitter, since the article is REALLY light on specifics.

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    Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?

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    I wonder if it’s so Trump knows where all of his supporters actually are located. If you’re trying to quell a future resistance, it would be easy to begin with pockets of the country that don’t have the app installed.

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      I wonder if that dumb ass has downloaded his own app and let a third party track the POTUS in real time. I almost feel sorry for the agents assigned to his security detail.

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        It’s already trivial to track the president’s approximate location if you’re a drone operator or hobbyist pilot because he has a 50 mile diameter no-fly zone centered on him at all times, which is plainly visible on the FAA maps.

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    Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three…

    BUT HER EMAILS

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    Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?

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    One thing I don’t think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app’s users on a server that isn’t even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.

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        I would have been more concerned if the app didn’t send data to Palantir. For now they still have to trick people to be 100% tracked, soon they won’t need anything. When they can passively track us, we are fucked. All it takes is biometrics + identity(name, ssn, driver license) + location(from your active devices) and tracking in apps is not needed anymore.