Eighty six percent of business travel executives polled said "court decisions allowing U.S. Customs Agents and Border Patrol officers to examine and download the contents of travelers' laptops

--or to even confiscate them--are ample cause to limit the kind of proprietary information typically carried in an executive's computer," the Association of Corporate Travel Executives said. According to ACTE executive director Susan Gurley, "The information that U.S. government officials have the right to examine, download or even seize business travelers' laptops came as a surprise to the majority of our members. The common belief is that there is a right to the privacy of one's computer. Yet it appears that there is none. ACTE's leadership continues to ask for clarification from the U.S. government regarding what steps, if any, are being taken to protect confidential business, privileged legal and personal information."