Amazon Music is Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) music and podcast streaming app, offered as an ad-supported free tier alongside the paid Amazon Music Unlimited subscription. Amazon's own ad-preference control page states that, unless a user opts out, Amazon uses information about a user's activity on Amazon's store and services to deliver ads both on and off Amazon's own properties, and the app's Google Play Data Safety declaration discloses collection of Personal info, Financial info and 7 other data categories, some of which may be shared with third parties for app-activity and performance analytics. Amazon Music's Apple App Store privacy label declares a narrower ad-tracking footprint than some peers: it lists data "linked to" the user's identity used for the developer's own advertising/marketing, but does not carry Apple's separate "Data Used to Track You" disclosure. Ownership is fully traceable to the publicly traded, SEC-reporting parent. No Amazon Music-specific enforcement action was found; Amazon's Alexa voice-assistant business (same corporate family) was subject to a 2023 FTC/DOJ children's-privacy enforcement action over data-deletion practices, which is included here as track record for the operating company.
TRACK RECORD
1 ENFORCEMENT ACTION
[2023-07-19]
The FTC's case page for United States v. Amazon.com (Alexa) states the FTC required Amazon to overhaul its data-deletion practices and implement privacy safeguards to settle charges it violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule and deceived parents and users of the Alexa voice assistant about its data-deletion practices; a stipulated order for a permanent injunction and civil penalty was entered July 19, 2023.
Amazon Music's Google Play Store listing discloses under "Data safety" that the app may collect Personal info, Financial info, and 7 other data type categories, that data is encrypted in transit, and that a user can request data deletion.
Amazon Music's Apple App Store privacy label states that data collected and linked to the user's identity — including Purchases, Contact Info, and other categories — may be used for a set of disclosed purposes.
Amazon.com, Inc.'s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the SEC, identifies it as a Delaware corporation whose common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker AMZN.
Amazon Music's Google Play Store "Data safety" section discloses that the app may share App activity and App info and performance data types with third parties.
Amazon's own interest-based advertising preferences page states that, unless a user opts out, Amazon uses information about the user's activity on Amazon's store and services to deliver ads to that user off of Amazon's own properties, i.e. on third-party sites and apps.
The FTC's case page for United States v. Amazon.com (Alexa) states the FTC required Amazon to overhaul its data-deletion practices and implement privacy safeguards to settle charges it violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule and deceived parents and users of the Alexa voice assistant about its data-deletion practices; a stipulated order for a permanent injunction and civil penalty was entered July 19, 2023.
Amazon Music's Apple App Store privacy label lists "Developer's Advertising or Marketing" as one of the declared purposes for identity-linked data use; the label does not carry Apple's separate "Data Used to Track You" cross-app tracking disclosure that appears on some peer streaming apps' labels.