And what if my laptop was found to have copies of pirated software, music, movies, TV shows, etc...? Are they now the Copyright Act enforcers?
I would have assumed "I have nothing to hide" until a quick mental inventory of my hard drive has me reaching for the delete key and googling "freeware".
Now as far as comparisons with actual police states, it's easy to say "we're living in freedom compared to Korea/Saudi/Iran/China..." ... but every time we lose a civil liberty we're regressing further and further.