CONFIRMEDTechnologySecurity researchers discovered that the official White House mobile app has OneSignal SDK compiled in, which polls user GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes and syncs them to a third-party server.
“Security researchers discovered that the official White House mobile app has OneSignal SDK compiled in, which polls user GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes and syncs them to a third-party server.”
A security analysis revealed something alarming in the official White House mobile application: a full GPS tracking pipeline that reports your exact coordinates to a third-party server every 4.5 minutes.
Researchers at Atomic Computer published a detailed security analysis showing the app includes OneSignal SDK — a push notification service that also harvests precise geolocation data. The implementation goes far beyond what is needed for push notifications.
Anyone who downloads the official White House app is unknowingly providing a continuous stream of their physical location to servers outside government control. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has documented how this type of data collection creates a surveillance infrastructure that bypasses warrant requirements.
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