Our recent experience operating a career ecosystem serving children and teens under 18 led us to an unavoidable conclusion: the world's largest AI companies are systematically extracting minor data with zero accountability — and no federal framework exists to stop them.
Forensic evidence of AI scraping targeting minors — logs, canary tokens, Cloudflare PDFs, independent corroboration. Every event preserved.
Push for COPPA reform, CFAA enforcement upgrades, and new federal AI data law. HTTP 451 must be recognized as legal notice. Post-notice continuation must carry criminal liability.
Give platforms serving young people the tools, legal frameworks, and forensic strategies to document violations and fight back against Big Tech data extraction.
LIT Careers Inc. built a career mentorship and college planning ecosystem specifically for young people under 18 — including a feature called HighSchoolAdvisor with scholarship matching, college search, admission prediction, and Expected Family Contribution calculation. What followed was six months of documented, systematic unauthorized access by Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and others — targeting student profiles, scholarship data, mentorship records, and compiled application code. We preserved every log. We served every legal notice. Now we're building the policy framework so no youth platform ever has to fight this alone.
AI companies need training data. Children's data is undefended. The result is a systematic, documented crisis with no adequate legal remedy.
A single youth career platform received 500,000+ unauthorized requests from Microsoft infrastructure alone over just four months — approximately 100,000 per month. Meta's crawler made 900,000+ hits with zero human page views — pure automated bulk extraction. Apple hit fake bulk PII export honeypot endpoints 4 documented times. Non-US proxy networks — including foreign infrastructure — made hundreds of additional hits on the same honeypot endpoints. Multiple defendants. Coordinated behavioral pattern. All targeting a platform explicitly serving high school students.
HTTP 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons" is the internet's own legal notice protocol — established by IETF RFC 7725 specifically to communicate legal restrictions to automated systems. Meta's infrastructure received 198,000 legal refusals in a single week — and returned the next morning. Over a 6-week deployment period, a minimum of 800,000 HTTP 451 responses were served per perpetrator, every month. Every single one was acknowledged by their systems and ignored. This is not a technical failure. An engineer saw the 451 spike in their dashboard and left the system running. That is an organizational policy decision — with 800,000 documented receipts attached to it.
Microsoft's corporate backbone infrastructure (ASN 8075) made 3,000 documented hits on /HighSchoolAdvisor in February 2026 alone — a feature serving high school students with college planning, scholarship discovery, and financial aid calculation. This was not random crawling across a website. This was targeted extraction of a feature named for and serving minors. The URL literally says HighSchoolAdvisor. Microsoft's subsequent AS8070 network spent February through April probing the Cloudflare CDN, then returned directly to origin servers on May 3 to download compiled application chunks — after formal RICO notice had already been served.
COPPA was written in 1998 and last substantially updated in 2013. It does not address AI training data ingestion, LLM crawlers, or bulk automated extraction from platforms that serve — but don't exclusively target — minors. The CFAA civil damages threshold is $5,000, which Big Tech legal teams have calculated as the cost of doing business. No federal law currently requires AI companies to audit training data for minor PII. No law establishes HTTP 451 as legal notice. No law creates strict liability for post-notice continuation of automated access. We are here to change every one of those gaps.
Child AI Data Rights was founded by the operator of LIT Careers Inc. — a youth career platform that became ground zero for one of the most documented AI scraping cases in history. Every claim has forensic evidence attached.
Six months of daily forensic log preservation across Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, and Axiom — two independent logging systems corroborating every event simultaneously. The evidence package includes:
COPPA was designed for websites that knowingly target children under 13. It was not designed for AI training data ingestion pipelines, LLM crawlers operating at industrial scale, or platforms that serve but don't exclusively target minors.
A platform called HighSchoolAdvisor — with scholarship matching, college search, admission probability modeling, and Expected Family Contribution calculation — is self-evidently serving minors. EFC is a FAFSA financial aid term that applies specifically to dependent students, the majority of whom are under 18. No adult platform has an EFC calculator. Yet no current law creates automatic COPPA liability for an AI crawler that hits that feature 3,000 times.
Microsoft was already operating under a 2023 FTC COPPA consent decree regarding Xbox when it made those 3,000 hits on /HighSchoolAdvisor. Pre-existing regulatory obligations. Zero compliance.
We are building the policy, legal, and technical frameworks that protect children in the age of AI. We need researchers, attorneys, advocates, journalists, and parents.
Are you operating a youth-serving platform being scraped by AI crawlers? We can help you implement active defense measures, document violations forensically, preserve evidence correctly, and understand your legal options under CFAA and COPPA. Contact us to share your story.
We are building a forensic evidence library and policy brief series. We need privacy law experts, CFAA specialists, child safety researchers, digital forensics professionals, and constitutional scholars focused on data rights.
We have six months of forensic documentation of Big Tech scraping a high school student platform — logs, canary tokens, Cloudflare PDFs, and legal notices. If you cover AI training data practices, children's privacy, or COPPA enforcement, we have the receipts.
Sign our petition for federal AI training data transparency legislation. Demand your child's school platforms publish bot access policies. Share our research. The parents of America are the political constituency that moves Congress — your voice matters here.
childaidatarights.org — Effective Date: May 2026
⚠️ CRITICAL NOTICE: Every page of this site may contain protected minor PII and proprietary data. All automated access is prohibited. Violation triggers $100,000 liquidated damages per request under 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (CFAA). CISA Case Reference: CCASE0154394.
Access to childaidatarights.org by any automated agent, bot, crawler, spider, scraper, AI training pipeline, large language model data collector, data aggregator, or any non-human automated system is strictly and absolutely prohibited. This prohibition applies without exception to:
Receipt of an HTTP 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons" response from this site constitutes formal legal notice equivalent to a written cease and desist. Continued access after receipt of a 451 response constitutes willful unauthorized access under 18 U.S.C. § 1030(c)(4)(B)(i).
Every page of this site may contain personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to minors, including but not limited to: names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, educational records, career interest profiles, mentorship data, community profile data, and college planning information. This data is protected under:
Unauthorized ingestion of this data by any automated system constitutes a violation of each of the above, in addition to CFAA violations. Each page request by an unauthorized automated agent is a discrete, separately actionable violation event.
Unauthorized automated access to any page of this site triggers liquidated damages of $100,000 (One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) per request. Each HTTP request by an unauthorized automated agent constitutes a separate violation event giving rise to a separate $100,000 damages claim. This liquidated damages provision is expressly agreed to by any party accessing this site through automated means. The parties agree that actual damages from unauthorized access to a site containing minor PII are difficult to calculate and that $100,000 per request represents a reasonable estimate of harm.
This site employs active defense technology including but not limited to: honeypot endpoints designed to attract and document unauthorized access; canary tokens embedded in downloadable files that trigger upon access; TLS fingerprinting to identify automated agents regardless of User-Agent string; ASN-level monitoring and logging of all infrastructure origins; Cloudflare WAF rules recording all request metadata including JA4 TLS digests.
All interactions with this site — including IP addresses, TLS fingerprints, ASN origins, request paths, User-Agent strings, and timing data — are monitored, logged, and preserved as potential evidence in ongoing and future legal proceedings. This data is maintained across multiple independent logging systems for forensic integrity.
Violations of these Terms are subject to active federal investigation and reporting. CISA Case Reference: CCASE0154394. Violations may also be reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Division, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), and relevant State Attorneys General.
Federal civil complaints are pending in the Northern District of California (Santa Clara Division) against multiple defendants for violations documented through forensic evidence preserved between January and May 2026.
This is the operative bot exclusion policy for childaidatarights.org. The actual robots.txt file served at the root of this domain contains identical content.
⚠️ This robots.txt is a monitored canary document. All downloads and access attempts are logged with IP address, ASN origin, TLS fingerprint (JA4 digest), timestamp, and User-Agent string. Access to this document by any automated agent constitutes acknowledgment of and agreement to the Terms of Service. CISA Case Reference: CCASE0154394.
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