FTC press releases (~11,000 enforcement actions, consumer protection, antitrust)

Dataset · US Federal Trade Commission · ingestion source ↗

Every Federal Trade Commission press release since 2016 — enforcement actions against deceptive practices, robocall operations, scams, data-privacy violations, antitrust matters, merger reviews, settlements. Categorized via title-keyword derivation: deceptive-practices / fraud-scam / robocall / data-privacy / childrens-privacy / antitrust / settlement / consumer-protection. $ amounts extracted from title text where mentioned (court orders to pay X). **Pipeline crack**: ftc.gov is Akamai-protected; plain curl returns 404/403. Cracked via tls_client Chrome 124 TLS fingerprint impersonation. Walked all 551 paginated /news-events/news/press-releases/ pages.

Source organization
US Federal Trade Commission
License / terms
Coverage
~11,000 releases
API endpoint

Keywords

FTCconsumer protectiondeceptive practicesantitrustrobocalldata privacyCOPPAmerger reviewSection 5Bureau of Consumer Protection

Provenance

This dataset was ingested from the listed source URL. Ingestion source: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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