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Fighting for You July 2026 Legislative and Regulatory Update

Howard Fienberg
Government Affairs
7/30/2026 8:48:00 AM

July may be peak vacation season, but policymakers gave the insights industry little opportunity to relax. The Insights Association tracked and engaged on consequential developments involving privacy and data security, artificial intelligence and HR law, from the defeat of problematic California data-localization legislation to a damaging new data law in New Jersey, federal restrictions affecting children’s data, emerging chatbot requirements and new rules governing non-compete agreements.