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Connecting the dots across markets or segments can’t happen in isolation. It needs active involvement from the people who know their business best: the clients.

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.

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...

A recent policy event in Washington, DC featured top policymakers discussing a wide variety of public policy and political concerns; healthcare issues featured prominently.

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."

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.”

According to a leading House Democrat, there is still an opportunity to set a regulatory approach to artificial intelligence in Congress.

The Insights Association has urged the federal government to add the market research ISO 20252 to the list of approved and accepted certifications for federal contractors.

The big tax and budget reconciliation law, signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, includes a provision sought by the Insights Association to empower the insights industry’s workforce with more flexible and affordable approaches to training.

June brought lots of sizzling policy developments for the insights industry -- some promising, others challenging. Thankfully, the Insights Association was right in the thick of it. Let’s look at some wins on privacy issues and political polling, a troubling GDPR case in Europe, lots of new guidance on privacy, AI, HR, and email laws, developments on indirect costs in federally-funded research, and more.