Every time you get a patdown, make sure to ask for a private room. Why? Well, in addition to the fact that it saves you from having your boss or family watch someone grabbing your boobs, it puts the screeners on notice that you are extremely sensitive about being abused or humiliated and so they will follow their own rules more acutely.

Another bonus: if everyone did it, we could cause some serious problems for the TSA. Here, from the screener's mouth:

"Now seriously it's very difficult to have all pat downs down privately.
first most airports don't have the space, we have a tiny curtain divider, to be use by males/females/wheel chair, religious reasons etc.

so if a private pat down is performed, we'll have a line at the checkpoint then another one at the private room, how do we control this and how do we make sure the passenger is not contaminated with other people. "


Okay, so airports don't have space or personnel to privately screen everyone. Make it less convenient for the TSA to abuse us: assert your right to a private screening. Obstructionism is the name of the game.