Trump's 2020 campaign app hoovers up way more user data than Biden's, including contacts, location, and Bluetooth
Trump's asks for access to much more of the user's personal data than Biden's, including location and Bluetooth data.
Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley of the University of Texas' Propaganda Research Team analyzed both apps and wrote about their findings in theAccording to Gursky and Woolley, Trump's app launched in mid-April and has garnered 780,000 downloads. Broadly speaking the app allows users to engage with the Trump campaign, enabling people to sign up to volunteer, get tickets for events, and livestream the president's rallies.
Biden's app meanwhile, called Team Joe, is more specifically geared towards getting users to campaign for Biden to their contacts. "The Team Joe app is an organizing tool that allows you to text your friends in support of Joe and get updates from the campaign," the app's description reads on"We'll let you know which of your friends and family members we're hoping to talk to.
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