If you supply someone with your bank account and routing information it is by default assumed you meant to permit withdrawals by that party. Your defense against a case where you give this info. for one purpose and they use it to steal (or wrongly share or carelessly lose it) is that you can contest the transactions. Same as with a credit card. You give out the account and expiration date and someone charges you. You have a finite amount of time to dispute or else you live with it.
...The arguments in court certainly are going to surround in what "state" Amazon.com is operating in...
Right. And the key to it all will be NY's assertion that Amazon having affiliates within New York constitutes Amazon having physical presence there. So the question becomes what will the courts say is.. in fact "presence".
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If you supply someone with your bank account and routing information it is by default assumed you meant to permit withdrawals by that party. Your defense against a case where you give this info. for one purpose and they use it to steal (or wrongly share or carelessly lose it) is that you can contest the transactions. Same as with a credit card. You give out the account and expiration date and someone charges you. You have a finite amount of time to dispute or else you live with it.
...The arguments in court certainly are going to surround in what "state" Amazon.com is operating in...
Right. And the key to it all will be NY's assertion that Amazon having affiliates within New York constitutes Amazon having physical presence there. So the question becomes what will the courts say is.. in fact "presence".