Snooping

Regarding the problem of corporate snooping on or off the Web (editorial, March 3), the Bank of America recently sent its clients a small notice in uninviting print informing us that it was sharing information about us with various associates, etc. We could partially stop this, it said, by sending a letter requesting them not to do so. I had to compose the letter, type it out on my own paper, insert it in one of my own envelopes, stick one of my own stamps to it and mail it.

Would it not have been much nicer if, instead, the bank had included a stamped, self-addressed form on which we could indicate with a simple check mark our permission to have them share such information! That the bank did not tells us a lot about the psychology of today’s mega-corporations.

PHILIP WALKER

Santa Barbara