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.
What are your taxes paying for?
edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/
Cross referencing these different things in the article to other apps that exist was my first thought as these seem pretty generic and probably reused from somewhere else.
They likely did a search-and-replace on the brand name, so you had strings like 'your invoices from Home Quarantine inc' in the code.
Not a bad thing per se, getting the app out the door asap was definitely a priority in that project for understandable reasons, but funny nonetheless.
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.
"Visit TrumpRx.gov"
How did that last administration's dwelling on persecuting the one before it turn out?
While I don't like the current one and certainly agree that some of its actions are totally unethical, once it's over can we just move on and look forward, not back?
Without consequences for illegal behaviour, there's no incentive for bad actors to not continue acting bad. This, in no small part, explains why we are where we are today - a misplaced attempt to 'move forward' by ignoring illegal actions.
More than prosecution we need politicians elected who are willing to reform. Even if those reforms reduce their power as well
Prosecute, and get rid of the loopholes that made it necessary to do so.
They were way too slow about it.
I hope the next one is faster.