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Prosecuting criminals.
That'll only work here if there are reforms to the pardon power while we're at it. Any convictions a Democratic administration manages to obtain will be pardoned the next time a Republican gets in.
Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.
If only the US Digital Service still existed as an agency to do this right. Too bad it's now been hollowed out to be DOGE, subject to multiple active lawsuits. What are your taxes paying for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/
Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.
"Visit TrumpRx.gov" Holy crap, the grift never ends! Is he even allowed to do that, use a .gov address to peddle dodgy meds?
Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.
That's exactly what 45Press is. They won a 1.5mil contract to spit out this tripe (tbf the contract includes other wh.gov support).
I think its cost over $5mm at this point, and the website doesn't exist. Oh, the company that built the site is owned by, I think the spouse of a council member, or something of that ilk.
Edit: 2.2mm, initial bid of 300k.
OneSignal cofounder here. Posting since our service was mentioned in this article. For those concerned or curious about location data collection, we wrote an explanation of how it works: https://onesignal.com/blog/youre-in-control-how-location-act...
We do not sell user data. Period. You’ll sell it if you sell your company (as per your privacy policy).[1] We may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any acquisition of our business, financing or similar transaction. If you wouldn’t sell it, period, then I’d suggest amending your privacy policy to include irrevocable deletion of customer data at the point your…
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If only the US Digital Service still existed as an agency to do this right. Too bad it's now been hollowed out to be DOGE, subject to multiple active lawsuits. What are your taxes paying for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/
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Yes that's the normal way of doing things? Why would someone buy a business with no user base?
I believe the problem is not doing this, but the text in the policy is misleading, since users would believe their data would never be shared with anyone outside of the company itself _unconditionally_, which is not true (if only by technicality), the data can be sold as part of the company.
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For an Android game downloaded from the Play store I wouldn't find these findings surprising at all. But from an official app from the White House? Well ok, from THIS White House - you're completely right to expect that.
Lol, this is a really funny take. I'm imagining Joe Biden or George Bush asking, "did you check it for supply chain vulnerabilities?" The DoD has been hacked countless times, by children even. I wouldn't doubt if we decompiled most government apps we'd find this same vector in many of them. It seems like this vector is only recently a hot topic. And decades of doing things wrong won't be patched and habits broken in…
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Lol, this is a really funny take. I'm imagining Joe Biden or George Bush asking, "did you check it for supply chain vulnerabilities?" The DoD has been hacked countless times, by children even. I wouldn't doubt if we decompiled most government apps we'd find this same vector in many of them. It seems like this vector is only recently a hot topic. And decades of doing things wrong won't be patched and habits broken in…
I agree that governments in general are very bad at this. But I also think that this admistration is even more special in it's own way.
This one failed to do that. And that makes it stink of fanaticism (which is annoying to rational folks).