Insights Association Joins TCPA Challenge at the Supreme Court Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 9/14/2020 4:41:00 PM The Insights Association joined an amicus brief in a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the definition of an autodialer in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The leading nonprofit trade association representing the marketing research and data analytics industry joined 10 other business groups in the filing, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Financial Services Association, and Business Roundtable. Read More
DC Rejects New Tax on Data Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/29/2020 9:26:00 AM The City Council for Washington, DC voted on July 28, 2020 to reject the proposed three percent tax on the sale of data, as requested by the Insights Association and a large coalition of interested businesses and associations. Read More
Insights Association Calls for Suspension of Non-Compete Agreements Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 4/7/2020 1:32:00 PM The Insights Association today called upon its members and all organizations operating in the market research and data analytics space during this time of economic tumult to forgo enforcement of noncompete agreements for staff involuntarily separated from their organizations without full compensation. Read More
Non-Compete Agreements in the Insights Industry Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 4/7/2020 1:23:00 PM How should the U.S. insights industry approach the “iron triangle” of employment agreements – Non-Competes, Non-Disclosures and Non-Solicits – especially during the COVID-19 crisis? Read More
Protecting Your Customer Data: Cybersecurity Basics for Insights Providers Author Government Affairs 2/24/2020 3:18:00 PM Why Data Security is Essential to the Present & Future of Insights Read More
Determining the Fate of American Business for the Next Decade: Insights Association Testifies in Congress About 2020 Census Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 5/24/2019 10:15:00 AM As the Insights Association testified in a recent Congressional hearing, "the trickle-down impact of an inaccurate 2020 Census would restrain or ruin American businesses for a whole decade." Read More
OMB Agrees Not to Rush Statistical Agency Reorganization Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/10/2018 3:19:00 PM The Office of Management and Budget’s Chief Statistician, Nancy Potok, recently assured the Insights Association that any government reorganization of statistical agencies involving the Census Bureau will not occur until after the 2020 Census, as we had requested. Read More
Delay Reorganization of Federal Statistical Agencies Until After the 2020 Census Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/27/2018 3:15:00 PM The White House's recent proposal to reorganize the federal government included a provision of intense interest to the marketing research and data analytics industry: the consolidation of the biggest federal statistical agencies. However, the Insights Association today urged the Trump Administration and Congress to delay any consolidation plans until after the 2020 Census. Read More
Circuit Court Finally Rebuffs FCC's TCPA Rules, Remanding Them for a Rewrite Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 3/16/2018 5:41:00 PM A DC Circuit Court decision rejected much of the FCC's 2015 TCPA regulations and accepted a lot of the Insights Association's arguments in the case, in which we were intervenors. Read More
Texas Comptroller Abandons Attempt to Tax Custom Market Research Author Government Affairs 3/8/2018 3:08:00 PM They say nothing is certain in this life but death and taxes. We’ll need to revise that axiom a bit after a favorable outcome was announced last month for an Insights Association member company in its legal battle against the Texas state comptroller, who sought to collect sales tax on research services. Read More