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Platform deep dives that call out what each app collects.
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You're already naked. The book is the towel.
The privacy book that updates itself. Every day, a new headline, mapped to the chapter of Volume I that already saw it coming. Read the news. Read the chapter. Run the toolkit.
348 pages
50 platforms graded A-F
3 action toolkits
6 Vol. II preview chapters
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"This book should come pre-installed on every phone."
The living book
One story. Eight moves.
Move from the moment you recognize the pattern to the moment you decide what happens next. Every chapter below uses the original reporting, tools, evidence, and book material.
ShinyHunters hit ~100 companies through Salesforce - Mar 11 2026
Conduent breach grows to 25 million affected
11 breaches per day on average - 4,100+ in 2025
South Korea enacts punitive data breach fines
LexisNexis confirms breach - the data broker got data-brokered
Average breach takes 241 days to detect
TriZetto exposes 3.4M protected health records
60% of breaches involve a human element
ShinyHunters hit ~100 companies through Salesforce - Mar 11 2026
Conduent breach grows to 25 million affected
11 breaches per day on average - 4,100+ in 2025
South Korea enacts punitive data breach fines
LexisNexis confirms breach - the data broker got data-brokered
Average breach takes 241 days to detect
TriZetto exposes 3.4M protected health records
60% of breaches involve a human element
Why This Book Exists
Not fear. Translation. Here is what is actually happening in 2026, in plain English, and the chapter that already mapped it.
Your driveway is collecting evidence.
In January 2026 the FTC finalized a 20-year order against GM and OnStar for collecting and selling drivers' precise location and driving behavior without clear consent. Chapter 48 maps that exact pipeline. The book exists so the next one does not blindside you.
HIPAA covers your doctor. It usually does not cover your apps.
The heart rate, sleep, and cycle data your fitness app collects is typically not protected the way your medical chart is. Chapter 49 shows exactly where the protection stops, and what to switch off tonight.
Most privacy advice stops at "your data is collected."
This book shows the chain instead. One tap opens an account, that account opens the next, and the last link is a real person in your inbox or at your door. Specificity is the difference between fear and a fix.
A weather app does not need your exact location to forecast rain.
In May 2026 the FTC banned data broker Kochava from selling sensitive location data without consent. Chapter 34 explains how "check the weather" quietly became "sell my coordinates before the coffee cools."
You clicked "I Agree" on terms you could not realistically read.
That was by design. Reading every policy you accept in a year would cost you days. This book is the translation you were never handed, written so a parent, a teen, or a seventy-year-old can act on it.
The breach often is not the brand you trusted. It is their vendor.
Customer data tied to Hims & Hers was exposed in 2026 through its support vendor, not its core systems. The same pattern keeps repeating: the weak link is the chain, not the logo. The book teaches you to see the whole chain.
Caught Undressing ... live
One door opens the next.
This is the book updating itself against this week's world. The book named them. Here is the news catching them in the act.
How to read these cards
Every story below is one app, broker, or breach caught taking more than you agreed to. The headline. The pivot the attacker walks (the chain that opens the next account, that opens the next, that calls a friend). The agreement someone clicked I Agree on for you. The chapter of Volume I that already saw it coming. Plus the 60-second move that stops the chain where you sit.
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The book already told you.
Real breaches from the news. The chapter that saw each one coming. What it costs you, in your terms. Guess first, then tap for the answer.
Your car has a second job.
GM and OnStar collected drivers' precise location and driving behavior and sold it, without clear consent. In January 2026 the FTC locked them into a 20-year order.
Guess first: what does the buyer of that data know about you?
Where you sleep. Where you work. How you drive on a bad day. An ordinary commute becomes a profile that can follow you to your insurer.
The book's move: Open your car's settings. Find Data Privacy or Connected Services. Turn off driving-data and location sharing. GM owners: opt out of Smart Driver.
Chapter 48 graded connected cars D- and named this exact pipeline before the order landed.
The forecast was free. You were the price.
The FTC banned data broker Kochava from selling sensitive location data without a person's clear yes.
Guess first: what does a weather app need to forecast rain?
Your town. Not your GPS trail. Your location history is a map of your whole life: home, work, the doctor, who you visit. Sold cheaply, it is easy to buy and hard to take back.
The book's move: Set weather, shopping, and utility apps to Never or While Using. Turn Precise Location off. Then reset your Advertising ID so the old trail stops linking to the new one.
Chapter 34 graded weather apps F for exactly this trade: coordinates sold before your coffee cools.
The pharmacy held. The help desk did not.
Hims and Hers customer names and contact details leaked through its Zendesk support vendor. The company says medical records were not exposed.
Guess first: who leaked the health app's data - the app, or a company you never heard of?
The vendor. You never signed up with the company that got breached, and that is the point. Your name tied to a health service is a fact you cannot rotate like a password.
The book's move: Treat prescription emails as suspect for a few months. Open the app directly instead of clicking links. Turn on two-factor authentication on pharmacy and telehealth accounts.
Chapter 49 covers the gap: HIPAA protects your doctor's chart, not your app's vendor chain.
The homework app took attendance on 275 million people.
ShinyHunters breached Canvas: 3.65 TB of data tied to roughly 275 million students, teachers, and staff across about 9,000 schools.
Guess first: what is the best ten-minute defense for a child's stolen identity?
Freeze the child's credit at all three bureaus. It is free. A stolen kid's identity can sit unused for a decade before it surfaces.
The book's move: Freeze your child's credit tonight. Then turn on breach alerts for every email address in the house.
Chapter 42 wrote the household playbook for this, age by age, before the breach made it urgent.
You are the one who reads the fine print now. The feed below keeps score for you.
50 Platforms: Inside the Breakdown
Representative examples from the full grading matrix.
F TikTokBehavioral prediction engine
Micro-interactions map mood, attention, and beliefs rapidly.
Cross-session tracking builds durable personality fingerprints.
Read the full chapter →D SnapchatEphemeral UX, persistent signals
Disappearing content does not mean disappearing metadata.
Social graph and engagement patterns power long-term profiling.
Read the full chapter →D SpotifyEmotional analytics in motion
Listening shifts can reveal life events and emotional states.
Behavioral timing data is often more valuable than track title.
Read the full chapter →C LinkedInProfessional graph harvesting
Career movement, location, and social proximity are monetized.
Profile completeness pressures users to disclose more than needed.
Read the full chapter →B SignalPrivacy-first architecture
Stronger defaults and minimized data retention by design.
Still requires user hygiene for device-level safety.
Read the full chapter →F Weather AppsLocation broker pipeline
Seemingly harmless checks can trigger high-frequency location sales.
Data resold into adtech and broker ecosystems.
Read the full chapter →Read Before You Buy: From the Manuscript
Pulled directly from the manuscript so you can feel the voice before you commit.
The disappearing message that does not disappear
"Snapchat sells a feeling of impermanence while the system still captures enough metadata to model behavior over time."
The infinite scroll that learns you faster than you learn yourself
Chapter 2 walks the feed loop end to end: hesitation, replay, and dwell time become a profile. The full pull quote waits in Data-Naked Moments below.
Small settings, outsized risk reduction
"Most readers can make meaningful privacy gains before their coffee cools if the instructions are clear."
Six free tools. No app downloads. One email, instant access.
Built so a seventy-year-old can finish step one without help. Print and tape to the fridge if you want. The book is the textbook; these are the lab worksheets.
How I graded all fifty platforms.
The same rubric professional security auditors use, with the formula spelled out so you can grade anything new that shows up in your kid's app store next week. Six dimensions. A through F. No vibes.
The fastest privacy fix in the book.
Five changes anyone can make in the time it takes coffee to brew. Independent testing showed documented exposure drops between sixty and eighty percent. This is Chapter 41 as a single page.
The family group chat doesn't have to be a honeypot.
Age-by-age scripts for talking to kids, parents, and that one cousin about privacy without sounding like a hostage negotiator. Plus the seven settings to change on every family device this weekend.
Browser hardening. DNS rerouting. Permission audits.
Not paranoid. Reasonable. Adjacent to professional. For the reader who already did the cleanse and wants the next ten steps that move the needle without making everyday life worse.
Your data is out. Here's the order of operations.
Step-by-step protocol for SSN, financial, and medical exposure. The sequence matters. Skipping step three is how identity theft compounds. Eleven minutes if you're focused.
The exact settings on every social app you use.
Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. X. Snapchat. LinkedIn. With screenshots. No "check your privacy settings" hand wave ... here are the settings, by name, in order, with what happens when you change them.
Formats: Choose Yours
Same content in every edition. Pick speed, portability, or shelf presence.
Three Volumes. One Story.
Digitally Undressed is the first of three. The spine below grows as each volume ships; nothing here is a placeholder.
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Dedication
For everyone who clicked “I Agree” without reading the terms. This book is your translation.
Data-Naked Moments
Pulled straight from the manuscript. One per chapter, this is the voice of the book.
Three Things. This Week. That Is It.
The Closing Chapter rule: pick three. Do them this week. Privacy is a practice, not a project. Check one off live, the rest before bed.
Ten Minutes
Revoke location from every weather app on your phone.
Weather apps are the most aggressive location brokers on your device. They do not need precise GPS to tell you it is raining. Open settings, find every weather app, switch to "Never" or "While Using." Done.
Two Minutes
Set every Venmo transaction to Private. Past and future.
Venmo defaults transactions to Public. Strangers can see what you pay for. Settings, Privacy, set default to Private, then "Change All to Private" for your history. Two taps.
For The Family
Turn on Ghost Mode on Snap Map for everyone in your house.
Snap Map broadcasts real-time location to every friend. Open Snapchat, tap your face, gear icon, "See My Location," toggle Ghost Mode. Do it on your phone and your kid's tonight.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. Every concept is explained in plain English and every recommendation includes exact settings paths.
Yes. The behaviors described are global platform behaviors. Legal references are called out by region where needed.
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