Audible shares your personal data, including your listening history, with Amazon and all its affiliated companies, who can use it for advertising and to personalize their own products and services.
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Your audiobook listening habits can reveal sensitive personal interests, and this clause means that data flows to Amazon's broader advertising and recommendation systems — far beyond what you might expect from using an audiobook app.
Your listening history and behavioral data on Audible is shared with Amazon affiliates and may be used to serve targeted advertising across Amazon's entire platform, including on Amazon.com, Fire TV, and other Amazon properties.
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"Audible is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. We share information we collect with Amazon.com and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Amazon.com operates the platform and some of our features and services are provided by Amazon.com. Information you provide may be used by Amazon.com and its affiliates to provide, improve, and personalize products and services, including using it to show you interest-based ads.— Excerpt from Audible's Audible Privacy Notice
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)/(f) for lawful basis of processing and sharing; GDPR Art. 26 if Amazon and Audible are joint controllers; CCPA §1798.115 and CPRA regarding disclosure of personal information to affiliates and the 'sharing' definition for cross-context behavioral advertising; and VPPA 18 U.S.C. §2710 which prohibits disclosure of personally identifiable audio-visual consumption records without specific informed written consent. Enforcement authorities include EU DPAs, California Privacy Protection Agency, and private plaintiffs under VPPA.
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Your audiobook listening habits can reveal sensitive personal interests, and this clause means that data flows to Amazon's broader advertising and recommendation systems — far beyond what you might expect from using an audiobook app.
Your listening history and behavioral data on Audible is shared with Amazon affiliates and may be used to serve targeted advertising across Amazon's entire platform, including on Amazon.com, Fire TV, and other Amazon properties.
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