Fighting for You: June 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/26/2025 3:16:00 PM 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. Read More
Successful collaboration with AAPC yields victories in Alabama and Alaska for automated telephone research and political polling Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/11/2011 12:52:00 PM MRA's cooperative lobbying efforts with the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) bore fruit this year in Alabama and Alaska. Read More
Alabama political polling sponsorship disclosure requirements advancing (S.B. 96) Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 3/28/2011 12:31:00 PM The Alabama Senate passed S.B. 96, which would amend Section 17-5-16 of the Alabama Code to require “any communication via phone bank or other automated telephone dialing service to be conducted” with a “notice at the beginning and ending of the phone call that the communication was a paid political advertisement, clearly identifying the identification of the person, nonprofit corporation, entity, principal campaign committee, or political action committee that paid f... Read More