Before his White House stint, Carney spent two decades as a Time magazine journalist, Classic Books including postings in Washington and in Moscow, where he covered the Soviet Unionґs collapse. The company found him in a 16-month search, said Diego Piacentini, who was involved in the recruiting.

He told DailyMail.com: 'The deal should cost Audible just north of 20 million and the Obama's will need to contribute two shows with an estimated appearance cap of 8 episodes each for Barack and Michelle.



Spotify would eventually gain access to it. Sources familiar with the Obamas' Spotify deal, said the couple felt exclusivity limited their audience. The couple are pictured in an undated photo with their daughters who are now adults Instead, they wanted to be able to sell the content to multiple bidders.



Be fully prepared, Alexa advised the kids, to refute common parent arguments such as "too violent," "too expensive" and "youґre not doing well enough in school." The information came from a third-party program used by Alexa called "wikiHow" that provides how-to advice from more than 180,000 articles, according to Amazonґs website.

Nov 19 (Reuters) - As a Virginia lawmaker, Ibraheem Samirah has studied internet privacy issues and debated how to regulate tech firmsґ collection of personal data.
Still, he was stunned to learn the full details of the information Amazon.com Inc has collected on him.

Some of this information is highly sensitive.
Under a 2018 California law that passed despite Amazonґs opposition, consumers can access the personal data that technology companies keep on them. (Customers can request their data at this link. After losing that state battle, Amazon last year started allowing all U.S. consumers to access their data.

Former Royal Marine and Special Forces soldier Matthew ‘Ollie' Ollerton, 51, is best known for Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins.
The bestselling author lives in Shropshire with his wife Laura, 41, and her son William, 12.

Amazon also tracks words highlighted or looked up, pages turned and promotions seen. The disclosure included records of more than 3,700 reading sessions since 2017, including timestamped logs - to the millisecond - of books read.

The only way for customers to delete much of this personal data is to close their account, Amazon said.
The company said it retains some information, such as purchase history, after account closure to comply with legal obligations.



We were both jaded by previous marriages, Classic Book but I turned a corner after taking the hallucinogen Ayahuasca in Costa Rica in 2019. I've battled drink on and off all my life, but when I met Laura in 2014, she helped me overcome it.

Luckily, my mum had super-powers. My dad left when I was 13, leaving my mum to bring up three kids. She had a good job but, with no help, there were times when she was so stretched financially she had to steal toilet paper from work.

That was when I realised I was done with meeting women in nightclubs. Then, after 26 years away from home, I returned to the UK in 2014 and she let me spend three months at her Cornwall cottage, just working on myself.

The company knew every search he had made on its platform, including one for books on "progressive community organizing" and other sensitive health-related inquiries he thought were private.



Amazon Books customers can obtain their data by filling out a form on Amazon.com. website Seven Reuters reporters also obtained their Amazon files. The data reveals the companyґs ability to amass strikingly intimate portraits of individual consumers.



Their passion, curatorial style and ingenuity is reflected in the content they have created across all mediums, as well as the talented team they have assembled at Higher Ground. 'For so long we have been inspired by the Obamas.

'At Higher Ground, we have always sought to lift up voices that deserve to be heard — and Audible is invested in realizing that vision alongside us,' Barack said in a statement. 'I'm looking forward to partnering with them to tell stories that not only entertain but also inspire.'

customers, and it started making that data available to all upon request early last year, after trying and Amazon Books failing to defeat a 2018 California measure requiring such disclosures. The company gathers a vast array of information on its U.S.

The Virginia law allows technology companies to track consumer searches on their platforms to create marketing profiles. It gave tech companies exemptions to collect and analyze smart-speaker recordings without customer consent.
And it prevented consumers from suing companies over privacy violations.

'We are thrilled to welcome two of the most profound voices of moral and intellectual leadership of our times into the Audible fold, and to be able to elevate President and Mrs. Obama's singular ability to provide hope and uplifting guidance—needed now more than ever—through their voices.' 

Higher Ground also has an exclusive film and TV production deal with Netflix. The company produced the docuseries Our Great National Parks which showcases the planet's greatest national parks and wild spaces