Retail & Fintech · Digital Media · No confirmed finding (unverified, not clean)
Audible (Amazon)
Headline
Nothing confirmed
Audible's listening data is the same category the Video Privacy Protection Act was written to protect - a record of what specific media a named person consumed - and audiobook selection is at least as revealing as…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
What this pass recorded. Nothing confirmed this pass. Audible's listening data is the same category the Video Privacy Protection Act was written to protect - a record of what specific media a named person consumed - and audiobook selection is at least as revealing as video, covering health, religion, sexuality, politics and self-help. Audible also holds progress data: not just what you bought but what you actually finished and where you stopped. Amazon ownership means it sits inside the largest retail data operation in the world. Unverified rather than clean.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected, likely governed by Amazon's overall Conditions of Use given the shared account system.
Data sharing
Not independently confirmed this pass with a specific named data-privacy lawsuit or breach; as an Amazon subsidiary, Audible's account/billing data flows through Amazon's broader account infrastructure (documented extensively elsewhere in this tracker, including the $2.5B Prime dark-pattern settlement).
Fees and billing
Audible's SUBSCRIPTION/CREDIT model (monthly credits redeemable for audiobooks) has drawn some consumer complaints about credit expiration and cancellation friction, though no formal class action was independently confirmed this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not verified this pass — Amazon routes privacy requests through its in-account privacy portal
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. PARENT ADDRESS ONLY — verify before using for legal notice. Audible, Inc. is reported to be headquartered in Newark, New Jersey (not verified this pass). Parent: Amazon.com, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210, USA
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy audible.com/legal/privacy-notice | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service audible.com/legal/conditions-of-use | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.
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Same parent: Amazon.com, Inc.
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