Surveillance
Radley Balko observes that while governments like watching us, they don’t much like us videotaping them.
Surveillance, both private and public, has never bothered me much. If you do something in public, you should expect to be seen. If it’s not a chilling invasion of privacy for a cop to watch you do something from her car and file a report of it, it isn’t that chilling for her to watch it on a TV screen and record it.
That said, I think I favor an absolute right to videotape any event in a public place. If abortion is hidden in the fourth and ninth amendments, surely recording police actions is in the first. I’ll make an exception if military secrets are somehow threatened, but otherwise, if it happens outside, I can put it on tape, no matter how bad it embarasses you.