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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.
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A new policy statement from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) encourages organizing of independent contractors into labor unions, just like employees, and would include research subjects who receive any form of incentive for participating in market research studies.
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09Jan
Howard Fienberg |
09 Jan, 2025
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Fighting for You,
data privacy,
data security,
minors,
artificial intelligence,
healthcare,
Colorado,
Texas,
Wisconsin,
telephone,
competitive sourcing,
census,
independent contractors,
incentives,
District of Columbia,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Nebraska,
New York,
South Carolina |
Government Affairs |
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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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.
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30Jul
Howard Fienberg |
30 Jul, 2024
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Data Privacy,
Data Security,
Iowa,
Florida,
West Virginia,
California,
Artificial Intelligence,
independent contractors,
incentives,
human resources,
census,
Fighting for You |
Government Affairs |
Despite all the political turmoil in the U.S., the Insights Association remained focused on advocacy on our bread-and-butter policy issues in July, including heated fights over census funding, delays in federal noncompete rules, proposed portable benefits for independent contractors (that could include research subjects), more AI legislation, and a win on some IA-supported legislation in Congress.
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In response to a request for information from a Senate committee leader, the Insights Association, the leading nonprofit association for the insights industry, urged that any potential regime of portable benefits for independent contractors should not apply to research subjects.
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27Jun
Howard Fienberg |
27 Jun, 2024
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Data Privacy,
Data Security,
International,
Russia,
China,
Texas,
Oregon,
Connecticut,
California,
Colorado,
Artificial Intelligence,
independent contractors,
incentives,
Fighting for You |
Government Affairs |
The heat was rising on legislative, regulatory and compliance issues for the insights industry in June, as the Insights Association focused on: federal privacy legislation; pending compliance hurdles as new state and federal laws took effect; a new AI law in Colorado; and a federal bill that would require tax withholding for research subjects receiving participant incentives.
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President Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union Address to Congress touched on a few policy areas of concern to the insights industry, including privacy, artificial intelligence (AI) and research subjects who receive incentives.
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28Dec
Howard Fienberg |
28 Dec, 2023
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tax,
data privacy,
data security,
new york,
maine,
oregon,
minors,
independent contractors,
incentives,
artificial intelligence,
fighting for you |
Government Affairs |
As the insights industry closes out 2023 on the calendar, the Insights Association looked back at our advocacy wins and losses on various consumer data privacy issues, and taxes, while checking in on legislation, regulation, and laws at the state and federal level on privacy, taxes, the independent contractor status of research subjects, and artificial intelligence.
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31Aug
Howard Fienberg |
31 Aug, 2023
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data privacy,
data security,
independent contractors,
incentives,
tax,
human resources,
eu,
international,
artificial intelligence,
california,
florida,
tennessee,
telephone,
oregon,
new york,
healthcare,
south carolina,
fighting for you |
Government Affairs |
As we close out an intense summer for the insights industry, the Insights Association has been focused on a wide variety of policy issues, including: the launch of a new program for legally transferring European Union personal data to the U.S.; looming worries in complying with state comprehensive consumer data privacy laws that came into effect on July 1, and newly-passed state laws in Florida and Tennessee; the latest developments in compliance concerns and regulation of artificial intelligenc...
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