To illustrate he points to a mission within the game in which players collect books for young girls in the virtual world.
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"They can go collect funny books if they want, " he says.
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Google could collect data on what books people read and create a dossier of their political views and other information.
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Coupled with a higher oil price, it has helped the government collect more taxes and balance its books.
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The cupboard is bare, you've had what you're going to get, balance the books or come and collect your P45s.
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The second question raised by these books is whether spies should simply collect information, or also work out what it means.
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Then there are authors whose books continue to sell and actors who can still collect money from reruns of old TV shows.
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Those who manage the books must be tough and smart enough to challenge the information they collect from their traders.
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