The Gestapo is us.

http://progressive.org/mag_mc100405

notice that a regular person, the employee, turned the photos over to the police. While it's easy to blame the big bad Wal mart, try to remember that we the people have to participate in the dismantling of our freedoms. I remember when I first started at best buy, the guys in the computer repair center were all fired up because they had turned in some guy's computer to the police because they thought it had kiddie porn on it. First off should you be snooping in someone's personal property, but then you have some low level manager deciding to call police. Because I'm pretty sure the photo worker (just like the tech at best buy) isn't going to make that kind of decision.

As for the secret service what are they gonna do? They have to check out all calls. But wait till they start actually prosecuting these type of incidents.