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ADVERTISEMENT New from CommonWealth Beacon DATA PRIVACY: House lawmakers signed off on a measure aimed at limiting the collection and sale of private data, though the legislation deviates in some ways from a version passed by the Senate earlier this year, Jennifer Smith reports. LAST CALL: Democrats in the Massachusetts House unanimously approved a bill backed by Gov. Maura Healey that would allow bars to keep serving alcohol until 3 a.m. through the end of July, subject to local approval. Ella Adams for State House News Service breaks it down. OPINION: Massachusetts should approve a proposed affiliation between CVS Health and Mass General Brigham — but only if state regulators can ensure that more access isn’t superseded by higher prices, write Paul Hattis, a senior fellow at the Lown Institute, and John McDonough, a professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. OPINION: The “transparency” bill passed by the House last week was anything but and instead served to...