EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Survives European Court Challenge Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 9/17/2025 2:34:00 PM The European Court of Justice (CJEU) recently dismissed a case brought against the new mechanism for trans-Atlantic data transfers, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Insights work can continue unimpeded as a result. Read More
U.S. Business Groups Worried By Census Impact of FY26 House CJS Appropriations Policy Rider Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 9/8/2025 1:22:00 PM A dozen U.S. business groups warned Congressional leaders of the dangers from a provision in federal funding legislation that would “would crater response rates to all Census Bureau surveys and result in the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) counting barely a third of the country,” while having “negative ripple effects across the U.S. economy” and particularly hurting rural areas and small population groups. Read More
Fighting for You: August 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/28/2025 4:23:00 PM As summer wound down, the legal, legislative and regulatory issues facing the insights industry continued to wind up, with a ton of new privacy laws, regulations and court cases across the U.S., new laws and legal challenges for artificial intelligence in the insights context, President Trump calling out the decennial census, and more rules and compliance guidance for accessibility online. Let's dive in... Read More
IA Responds to President on the 2030 Census Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/8/2025 2:33:00 PM The Insights Association responded to President Donald Trump’s call for “a new and highly accurate census” by urging the White House to fully fund the 2030 Census. Read More
Oklahoma Updates Data Security and Breach Notification Law Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/8/2025 1:46:00 PM Oklahoma S.B. 626 amended the state’s Security Breach Notification Act and requires the prompt disclosure of data breaches to affected individuals. Read More
President Trump on AI Training and Copyrights Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/31/2025 1:24:00 PM At a summit coinciding with the release of the White House’s new action plan for artificial intelligence (AI) on July 23, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump made waves with a comment on an issue mostly ignored in that plan -- intellectual property (IP) -- and insights industry experts are responding. Read More
Fighting for You: July 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/31/2025 1:15:00 PM Amidst all the advocacy wildfires for the insights industry, the Insights Association found significant wins on federal tax reporting thresholds, and support for professional insights education. Other legal, regulatory and legislative developments in July included heightened enforcement of data privacy and security rules, evolving policies on artificial intelligence, developments in health care, new state laws on non-compete agreements, challenges to the classification of research subjects as in... Read More
Latest on FDA Drug Approval, Medicaid, Rural Hospitals and Medicare Payments Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/28/2025 8:09:00 AM A recent policy event in Washington, DC featured top policymakers discussing a wide variety of public policy and political concerns; healthcare issues featured prominently. Read More
Freeing Digital Trade Between U.S. and Indonesia Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/25/2025 8:57:00 AM As part of a newly-announced trade deal between the U.S. and Indonesia, the White House stressed the agreement would "unlock major breakthroughs for America’s... digital sectors." Read More
Trump White House Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/23/2025 11:39:00 AM President Donald Trump released new proposals for regulating and supporting artificial intelligence (AI) on July 23, 2025. “America’s AI Action Plan” insists that the U.S. “needs to innovate faster and more comprehensively than our competitors in the development and distribution of new AI technology across every field, and dismantle unnecessary regulatory barriers that hinder the private sector in doing so.” Read More