Built for Kids. Applied to Everyone: Arizona's Push to Turn Parents into Gatekeepers and Platforms into Enforcers

When a striker feature is used to introduce large-scale policy shifts affecting surveillance systems, digital infrastructure, or constitutional rights — the process itself becomes part of the story.

Yesterday, all eyes were on the privacy bill in the Arizona Senate. Sen. Jake Hoffman’s striker to HB2917 advanced with a 6–1 Do Pass recommendation. It’s a landmark proposal that, on paper, would impose one of the most restrictive frameworks on government vehicle surveillance in Arizona.

But while attention was fixed on that vote, something else moved a…