The bill also would end the automatic collection of dues by the state, and require that every public-employee union get recertified to represent workers through an annual election.

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Starting in 1967 Bill and Camille Cosby built a collection of 400 works dating from the 18th through the 20th century and including artists like Bearden, Lawrence, late-19th-century landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, self-taught 20th-century artist Horace Pippin and 1960s abstract painter Alma Thomas.

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Meanwhile, privacy advocates argue that the bill's exemption for "operational" collection of data--allowing those practices to take place under an "opt-out" rule--gives advertisers far too much leeway.

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In effect, the new law was made redundant by a subsequent government bill to introduce a new system of debt collection - warrant sales by another name, argued Sheridan.

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At this year's annual meeting, former President Bill Clinton emphasized the power of transparency and data collection in mobilizing the fight against climate change.

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From the consumer side, the bill seeks to give customers the right to opt-out of data collection and to not have their data shared with third parties.

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To accomplish the desired effect, he assigned a dozen reporters (and himself) to chronicle the game-day activities of an eclectic collection of individuals, from Henry, Lucchino and Epstein to such players as Boston's Bill Mueller and Lou Merloni and New York's Hideki Matsui and Mariano Rivera--and even the guy who's been working the centerfield scoreboard at Fenway for the past dozen years.

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"In Texas we rely heavily on sales taxes, and if we don't protect ourselves from companies creatively structuring themselves to avoid tax collection, we're going to lose a lot of revenue, " said the author of the Texas bill, Republican Rep. John Otto.

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