RealityMine has launched RealLife Healthcare, a permission-based data technology solution, through an app and web interface, that captures unique digital data points from patients and physicians.

The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified the definition of an autodialer in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The case, in which the Insights Association had joined an amicus brief, potentially clears up decades of convoluted and conflicting rules and decisions from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and various courts that have tied legitimate actors in knots and fueled a deluge of class action litigation.

Have you ever considered that your customers may be more diverse than your marketing?

Schlesinger Group, a leading international data and research services company, has acquired Addison Research, a rapidly growing fieldwork and research services provider, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with clients based predominantly in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. 

The insights industry scored important legislative victories in the last month for pharmaceutical MR in Pennsylvania, data security in Utah, and more COVID-19 small business loans and grants at the federal level and in California. At the same time, we’re staring down lots of problematic legislation, including a new comprehensive data privacy law in Virginia and a complex excise tax on data collection in New York. Meanwhile, advocacy continues on issues like: California A.B. 2257; worrisome legislation in Congress that would allow for the unionization of research subjects; limitations on coronavirus-related exposure liability; the census; and restrictions on exit polling.