I get so tired of the folks who take the "I don't care who sees me" attitude. You know what? I'm no prude, but I do care who sees me. I would be very uncomfortable if I found a peeping tom outside my window. If someone is going to view me, I want to be aware of it and able to look him/her directly in the eye.

In that regard, I would feel much better about the NoS if I could see the TSO in the booth. One way glass would be fine. What do they have to hide?

RE: no cameras or cellphones in the booth. Nowhere have I seen it stated that a cellphone can not be in the booth - only that pictures can't be taken with one. In another thread, there was a long discussion about TSOs and what they needed to have on the job/in the sterile area. SATTSO strongly defended the powerful requirement for some TSOs, for personal/family reasons, to have a cellphone on their person at all times.

So how does this work? Per SATTSO, at least as far as he/she has observed at his/her airport, TSOs constantly rotate postions. So a TSO who must have a cellphone on his person at all times never gets assigned to the scanner? or does such a TSO go put the cellphone in his/her locker before each stint in the booth and retrieve it before the next rotation to other duties? Or does that TSO take it in the booth (because he/she, like SATTSO, has a overwhelming need to have a cellphone at all times. So then all that prevents that TSO from taking pictures of the scanner with his/her cellphone is the honor system?

BTW, where on the TSA website does it say that cameras and cellphones will not be permitted in the 'booth'?