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The insights industry faced more than just April showers, as the first full month of spring brought tempestuous issues, such as whether recent federal government action against DEI and sex/gender identity means we can no longer ask demographic questions, and determining the current impact of DOGE on the industry. We weighed in with Congress on consumer data privacy legislation, looked at a new privacy law change in Utah and the status of some AI legislation in California, urged more funding for ...
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The Insights Association joined a coalition letter urging Congress to provide $2 billion for the Census Bureau in Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26).
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March blew in like a lion for the insights industry, but it shows no signs of leaving like a lamb, as the Insights Association grappled with lots of advocacy issues, including: complicated new prohibitions on data sharing with certain foreign countries (and companies controlled by them); a new FTC nominee; worrisome tax bills in Maryland; a California bill to restrict artificial intelligence in interactions with research subjects; a new U.S. Labor Secretary potentially hostile to treating resear...
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February may be a shorter month on the calendar, but there was no shortage of advocacy work for the insights industry with new Trump Administration leadership, federal privacy legislation, more taxes in New Jersey and Washington state, disappearing census data, a new legislative threat to the ACS, AI regulation in Virginia and New York, federal reporting requirements for small businesses, and more.
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The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit association representing the market research and analytics industry, released a statement following the confirmation of Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce in the second Trump Administration, focused on his new role in census policy and trans-Atlantic consumer data sharing.
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Congress is pressing the White House “to immediately restore public access to federal datasets and data-driven tools,” including Census Bureau data, as requested by the Insights Association and other allied groups.
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The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit association representing the market research and analytics industry, joined a letter to Congressional leaders today opposing recent removals of federal data from government websites, including the U.S. Census Bureau, and urging that public data access be restored.
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The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit organization representing the market research and analytics industry, issued a statement welcoming the U.S. Senate confirmation of Russ Vought to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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While northerly climes were frosting over at the tail end of 2024, the Insights Association took a sharp look at the prior year in tax policy, privacy and artificial intelligence, while scoping out President Trump’s new Administration. We also covered an array of privacy, data security, telephone and other legislation and regulatory moves impacting the insights industry in December.
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As leaves accumulated and election season reached a crescendo, the Insights Association welcomed the advancement of a helpful kids’ privacy bill in Congress, dug into yet more new state privacy laws, advocated on census funding and policy concerns, and feasted on other policy issues of interest to the insights industry.
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