And now, Bank of America, it is only 20+ years later. You are blowing our private information to the winds. Literally. Because if an ATM receipt blew away, and anybody picked up that receipt, they would see the name of the check’s maker, their address and phone number, and horror stories could easily be the result. Theft, armed robbery, you name it.

After all the instruction I very specifically had as a BofA teller, and after your decades of experience, I think you know better, Bank of America.

Our right “To be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects shall not be violated” says our US Constitution‘s 4th Amendment. BofA, I think you are quite aware of that.

Lest you think I am picking on you, BofA, rest assured that I am aware that many other banks are unconscionably violating the law, and endangering our personal safety, in much the same way.

However, you as a bank are the latest in the line of offenders. Every one of you deserves to be publicly reprimanded, and much more. No exceptions.

There should be lawsuits.

Of course, when I complained to the bank operations manager and a headquarters official, both asserted that customers love this new feature in which all information is printed on the receipts. “When identity theft begins to occur in record numbers, people won’t love it anymore” I warned them both. “Those people just aren’t thinking”. “I’ll protect you!” crooned the headquarters official in the most saccharin way. As if she has that power herself. It was all too obvious that she cared not one iota about me as a human being, or my safety. Instead, she had mindlessly sold her soul to a corporate entity, which cares nothing about anyone except its own wealth and self-gain. Above all, the deliberate ignorance was appalling. “I think you both know better” I told the operations manager and the headquarters official, referencing privacy concerns as taught to me by…Bank of America.

What is the purpose for you, BofA, to keep the original copies of our canceled checks and not to return them to us, the makers and your paying customers? Are the originals being forked over to the government on demand, without our consent? Are you wanting us to deposit checks, with pictures of each individual one recorded by your ATM machines, just so you can all the more efficiently report our transactions back to the government? To share our personal financial information with the government is also to violate the 4th amendment. Did we ever give you a signed statement authorizing the release of that information?

Are you quite aware, BofA, that only ONE terrorist was caught as a result of National Security Letters between 2003-2005, according to former FBI agent Mike German?

The Patriot Act is not constitutional and provides no exception to the need for privacy and personal safety. Neither does being in any state of so-called “national emergency“ which, after all, has gone on for seven years and only more wars based on lies---ie “emergencies“---are being planned. We as individuals are the ones who stand at risk of being gun pointed just because of your wish to blow everybody’s information to the winds.

Get real, Bank of America. You stand to lose.

I am posting this letter to the Internet, asking members of the public to:

A) Add their own comments and observations by responding below

B) File class action lawsuits

C) Pass word along, asking others to do the same. I hereby request that readers copy and paste this open letter to other websites, to circulate it as an email to friends, and anything else they can think of to get the ball rolling. I also ask any readers who post this letter to other websites, to themselves mail all posted comments in to the BofA Headquarters.

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