I'm sorry. What? The fact that there's a potential digital image of my strip search defuses the embarassment aspect of it? The reason there's no righteous indignation over them is that normal people don't actually know what the devices are doing.
The fact that there's a potential digital image of my strip search defuses the embarassment aspect of it?
Uhh, yes. Embarrassment is an irrational, emotional response to a situation. When there is no "situation" - you're no longer in physical proximity to someone with authority over you, who is demanding you do something you don't want to do - there's no embarrassment. I can understand if you object based on principle, but I doubt you're actually embarrassed by it.
No, my objection based on my assumption that regardless of whether they store images today, 10 years from now when we've socialized the idea of electronic strip searches, we will end up storing them, and some douchebag minimum wage TSA dead-ender is going to circulate them on the Internet.
There's principles here too, but I don't need to evoke them.
Then I'm going to differentiate between actually being embarrassed and rationally anticipating potential future embarrassment. And I think that's indistinguishable from objecting on principle.
I believe you would be hard-pressed to rouse a lot of righteous indignation over magnetometers.