Fighting for You: August 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 8/28/2025 4:23:00 PM 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... Read More
Fighting for You: December 2024 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 1/9/2025 9:37:00 AM 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. Read More
Fighting for You: June 2024 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/27/2024 9:58:00 AM 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. Read More
Fighting for You September 2023 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 9/28/2023 9:14:00 AM While temperatures are starting to dip, concerns still simmered in September for the insights industry as we dealt with more new state privacy laws, burgeoning regulation of AI, and other pressing advocacy issues. Read More
Fighting for You: February 2023 Legislative & Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 3/1/2023 8:13:00 AM Privacy legislation and regulation kicked into gear during February at the state and federal level. The feds are proposing to prohibit all non-compete agreements, and changes are on the table for Kentucky’s new tax on insights services. That is just a taste of what’s been happening this past month in advocacy impacting the insights industry. Read More
Texas Comptroller Abandons Attempt to Tax Custom Market Research Author Government Affairs 3/8/2018 3:08:00 PM They say nothing is certain in this life but death and taxes. We’ll need to revise that axiom a bit after a favorable outcome was announced last month for an Insights Association member company in its legal battle against the Texas state comptroller, who sought to collect sales tax on research services. Read More
New Texas health privacy law H.B. 300 more expansive than HIPAA Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/14/2011 6:33:00 PM Texas governor, Rick Perry, has signed a new health bill, H.B. 300, into law that enforces new obligations in addition to the requirements of the HIPAA privacy rule. The law, which becomes effective September 1, 2012, provides an expansive definition of a covered entity and is likely to include non-covered entities under HIPAA, including survey researchers. Read More