Lauren N. Watson of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
The concept of the “supergroup” may have originated with rock and roll, but on April 16, 2025, privacy practitioners in the United States learned that a whole new type of supergroup has been formed. Far from being a reboot of Cream or the Traveling Wilburys, however, this latest supergroup is comprised of eight state privacy regulators from seven states (each of which has enacted a comprehensive state privacy law), who announced they have formed a bipartisan coalition to “safeguard the privacy rights of consumers” by coordinating their enforcement efforts relating to state consumer privacy laws.
Quick Hits
- State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, New Jersey, and Oregon, as well as the California Privacy Protection Agency, announced the formation of the “Consortium of Privacy Regulators.”
- While the creation of the Consortium does not reflect a closer alignment in the contents of the actual consumer privacy laws themselves, it will likely heighten regulators’ abilities to enforce those elements of consumer privacy law that are common across states.
- Businesses may wish to take this announcement as a sign to revisit their consumer privacy policies and practices, lest they find themselves subject to additional scrutiny by this new regulatory “supergroup.”
Read more at The National Law Review.