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We have another idiom which is suitable here "под микроскопом" (in the front of the microscope). The idea for the idiom is the same as for "как на ладони".
Если твоя жизнь под микроскопом будь...

Bah! I'm like Marx -- terrible at coming up with examples. Linen and coats?! Really?!


"It is difficult to preserve privacy in an increasingly transparent fishbowl."
"Living in a fishbowl world...

variations: examine it in all its details; examine all the details; examine it in detail


Thank you, everyone, for your suggestions. And for the amusing saying, Basil. :) I love Russian sayings...

In English "fishbowl" can mean "a bowl for fish" or it can mean "a place where there is no privacy" (because it's made out of glass, you see).
So a "fishbowl community" is a community where...