That's terrible. 

Follow Up:
No suspicion needed for laptop searches at borders and airports – US Appeals court
by Humphrey Cheung
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that US Customs officers do not need reasonable suspicion to search the contents of laptop hard drives and other media.  In a 3-0 decision, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that laptops are just like any other physical property and can be searched at the nation’s borders.  The judges also said airports with immigration checkpoints also serve as border stations.

The same is happening at the Dutch Border (Airports) (rough translation, but you get the idea)

Mobile phone, laptops and USB-sticks of travellers are drained on schiphol by the military police and checked on child porn, provisionally it still concerns a test. Traders would carry with, from fear for detection by means of the Internet, the objected to material always more often physical with itself. It concerns then all kinds of data carriers. The recherche wants select now or they can search these apparatuss on prohibited material.
According to the telegraph the test on schiphol with drain of data carriers at borders passages in fact secret would have had remain. To the implementation of it, as it happens, still legio legal problems stick. Have the royal military police under the guidance of the Public Prosecution Service in Haarlem, customs authorities and KLPD pilot kept concerning the monitoring of the Netherlands bring in of child porn by so-called child porn couriers, as well as sex tourism, thus an official declaration of justice.
It especially escape the military police would do be to countries where child porn are manufactured, as well as checking flights lands where sex tourism takes place, such as Thailand, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The military police do not want say what the criteria for the control to be. However, it confirms that data carriers such as laptops, digital cameras and CD-Rom have been checked.

(Dutch Articles)
Marechaussee zuigt laptop van reizigers leeg
Artikel 'De Telegraaf'

You know what? I'm more than happy to live in a country where our autority doesn't see us first as criminal suspect. Maybe the real "land of the free" is really in the north.

(English) by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Electronic Border Searches: An Open Letter
May 1, 2008

Chairman Bennie G. Thompson
Ranking Member Peter T. King
United States House of Representatives
Committee on Homeland Security

Dear Chairman Thompson and Ranking Member King:

We are writing to urge the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold hearings on the Department of Homeland Security's practice of searching and seizing Americans' digital information and electronic devices at U.S. borders. We also urge you to consider legislation to prevent abusive search practices by border agents and protect all Americans against suspicionless digital border inspections. In a free country, the government cannot have unlimited power to read, seize, store and use all information on any electronic device carried by any traveler entering or leaving the nation.

This issue is particularly critical in light of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent decision in United States v. Arnold, which permits customs officials to search laptop computers at the border without any suspicion or cause.1 Despite reassurances that border patrol agents are well trained and supervised,2 the public has been unable to learn through open government laws which policies and procedures Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has in place to protect travelers against arbitrary or abusive searches. Therefore, Congress must exercise oversight to ensure that border searches are not overly invasive or discriminatory, and establish appropriate safeguards to protect any information collected and maintained by the government.
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(Dutch)
EFF wil hoorzitting over doorzoeken van laptops door douane
De Electronic Frontier Foundation stapt naar het Congres in een poging het doorzoeken van laptops door de douane aan banden te leggen. De privacy-organisatie wil dat de overheid een onderzoek naar de praktijken instelt.
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