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I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.
Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is at the bottom of the article.
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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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?
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