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Not every October surprise has to be frightening. This month, the Insights Association helped deliver several significant wins for the insights industry in California, while keeping watch over a new crop of privacy, AI, accessibility and Census challenges across the country. IA also rolled out an updated Code of Standards and Ethics and continued to promote and protect the integrity of the market research, insights and data analytics profession.

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...

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...