Everyone who is not a brain-dead moron already pointed this out.
There are dozens of articles online from journalists and activists in dangerous places warning each other not to use this app.
It exposes your GPS location to everyone else using it, along with who you message and when, law enforcement in India have been using bitchat to crack down against protesters.
They connect their own phones to the network and they literally get a map of everyone using bitchat in that area, which is how they locate the people leading the protests.
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npub14k…3xcch
2026-08-10 22:13:51 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…x2a4
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2026-08-10 22:13:51 UTCEvent JSON
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