App Permissions / Permission Blindness
After V14 opened Phase 2 by exposing self-mapping via digital footprint, V15 targets a parallel self-exposure vector: app permissions granted years ago that remain active and unreviewed. The coercion mechanism — install gates that force Allow to use the app — is the behavioral trap.
The app was free. Access wasn't.
People believe they chose to grant app permissions. V15 exposes the coercion mechanism: most permission grants were not free choices. The app barely works without access. The convenience cost was privacy, paid automatically, once, and forgotten.
Permission coercion is frictionless and one-directional. The app asked once. The user tapped Allow under install pressure. The permission remained. No re-confirmation was ever required. The result is an invisible ongoing access grant the user has no mental model of.
The moment they remember tapping Allow without reading. The apps they use daily that still have microphone, location, camera, or contacts access they never revisited.
Settings → Privacy → Check what still has access. Revoke permissions you don't recognize or no longer need.
Converts awareness of permission coercion into a single auditable behavior. Empowerment close resolves fatalism risk: 'You may not have had a choice then. You have one now.'
V15 family includes an umbrella carousel (V15.3, posted 2026-05-18, safe zone violation — rebuild required) and a white Field Manual (V15.4, posted 2026-05-18, FYP spike at 327 views, tracking against V14.4 at 924 view benchmark). V primary direct video posted. V15.3A–E per-permission sub-series and V15.4A–E per-permission FM sub-series are reserved but not yet produced.