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While IA advocates for a better-resourced 2030 Census and American Community Survey (ACS), the federal government shutdown and continued funding battles have left a lot in limbo.

This October has been a scary time for the insights industry, and not just because of Halloween. Maryland’s new comprehensive privacy law – one of the strictest yet – and a wave of new California laws ranging from chatbot disclosure mandates, to imposing liability for AI-related harm, tightening consent rules, restricting algorithms, and faster data breach notifications, all brought significant compliance challenges for insights professionals. Federal bills signaled competing approaches to na...

Insights professionals are often responsible for reporting adverse events from pharmaceuticals or medical devices when they are uncovered during healthcare market research.

September brought interesting developments in advocacy issues facing the U.S. insights industry, including a gaggle of new state laws on data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI), the business community coalescing to defend the American Community Survey (ACS), a critical privacy decision in a European courtroom, a changing human resources landscape, and other legislation.

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) recently dismissed a case brought against the new mechanism for trans-Atlantic data transfers, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Insights work can continue unimpeded as a result.

A dozen U.S. business groups warned Congressional leaders of the dangers from a provision in federal funding legislation that would “would crater response rates to all Census Bureau surveys and result in the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) counting barely a third of the country,” while having “negative ripple effects across the U.S. economy” and particularly hurting rural areas and small population groups.

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...

The Insights Association responded to President Donald Trump’s call for “a new and highly accurate census” by urging the White House to fully fund the 2030 Census.

Oklahoma S.B. 626 amended the state’s Security Breach Notification Act and requires the prompt disclosure of data breaches to affected individuals.

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.