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To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
This is tracking the press who need it for their job
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
If that were even remotely true hopefully the press is smart enough to install on a burner "work" phone that sits in their desk drawer, or on a secondary account that is logged out by default.
that would still require the OS or user to spoof a location to actually prevent tracking. I hope they'd do that, but I wouldn't expect them to.
Which? Leaving it in a desk prevents tracking because the desk isn't following you. Putting it on an account that is fully logged out by default means it only gets your location when you switch to that account (which you can control).
I have a separate user in GrapheneOS for service accounts like Amazon or my Philips Hue lights, and that account is fully blocked for running in the background. Once a month or so when I need one of those apps I'm sure they all phone home, but their data is heavily limited.
I thought it was a given that, if it's a phone app, you're likely to want to carry it with you, not leave it on a desk with your computer.
That's probably why they did it. They know trump is most likely to be shot at by one of their own nuts.