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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) withdrew a regulatory proposal that could have unfairly applied restrictions in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to the work of many insights professionals. It would have been a misguided legal end-run around Congress to create a federal privacy law.

Legislative and regulatory issues facing the insights industry are blooming all over, including: a new FTC commissioner; proposed reform of the federal government research process; U.S. House-passed legislation to empower insights professionals with more training, while also prohibiting state AI regulation; state sales taxes advancing for insights-related services; a proposed ban on polling by public universities; new compliance guidance for the federal ban on sensitive data transfers to certain...

In addition to the Insights Association's extensive recent comments to the House Energy & Commerce Committee on crafting federal privacy legislation, the nonprofit association also joined a coalition letter supporting a set of broad policy principles to guide such a bill.

In comments to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, the Insights Association (IA) recommended “a comprehensive federal consumer data privacy law that will respect and protect consumers, facilitate compliance in the private sector, preempt the patchwork of conflicting state laws, centralize enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state Attorneys General (AGs), and continue to allow for the informed decision-making provided by insights services.”

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.

The insights industry began the first month of 2025 with an eye on a comprehensive federal privacy law, the potential organizing of research subjects into labor unions, legal guidance on artificial intelligence in Oregon, and how insights firms should respond to legal subpoenas for research-related information.

The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit organization representing the insights industry, celebrated Data Privacy Day by calling once again for a comprehensive U.S. consumer data privacy law to protect consumers, as well as market research and analytics.

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.

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.

Spooky season is here, but thanks to the Insights Association the insights industry had the upper hand on the legislative and legal ghouls and goblins in October as we tackled bills and laws on privacy, data security, artificial intelligence, and more.