Overview
- President Trump promoted a new official White House app that quickly climbed Apple’s App Store rankings.
- Researchers told NOTUS the app sends users’ IP addresses, time zones, and other details to outside services while its App Store privacy label, which is supposed to list data collection, is blank.
- The app uses premade widgets from a company founded in Russia, according to screenshots shared with NOTUS.
- Those third-party widgets exposed some White House staffers’ personal information inside the app, the researchers said.
- Cybersecurity experts, including former FBI analyst Philip Fields, called the setup slipshod and warned it puts users at risk, and no technical explanation or fixes from the White House have been reported.