I think the interesting bit is this choice between getting groped in public vs. private. Personally, I'm much more comfortable with an authority figure in publ

I think the interesting bit is this choice between getting groped in public vs. private. Personally, I'm much more comfortable with an authority figure in public than in private. I mean, photos of some TSA guy with his arm halfway up my ass are going to be a whole lot more embarrassing for him than for me. I mean, he could loose his job, while for me, the worst that would happen is my friends would tease me a bit. Really, "what you would be willing to do when other people are watching" is often a reasonable ethical shorthand for 'the right thing' - allowing people to (optionally) release the recording of their interaction with law enforcement would go a long ways towards reducing abuses by law-enforcement. On the other hand, what I'm really afraid of is getting put on some secret list, and video taping doesn't protect me from that.