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White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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“It’s shooting pure unadulterated propaganda into our veins,” says one worker.

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[–] leds@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Really...

[–] krogoth@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

I like the “we and our 227 partners” part. All of them totally care about your privacy!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

On paper, it's an official government news app being pushed over MDM to phones that are definitionally government property. There's not really ground to stand on here.

The fact that it's pure propaganda rather than an actually useful source of executive branch news is more a problem of the "White House News feed" or whatever you want to call it. It's a big fucking important problem.

But this is effectively whining that the fleet car you borrowed from work phones it's GPS location home. Oh no, a phone your work bought and paid for runs apps your work auto installs to it? Then only use it for work shit bozo, it's not your personal device.