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.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/ftc/press/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/ftc-press
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/ftc/press/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/ftc-press'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: US Federal Trade Commission
Primary source: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

FTC, consumer protection, deceptive practices, antitrust, robocall, data privacy, COPPA, merger review, Section 5, Bureau of Consumer Protection

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_ftc_press_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/ftc-press},
  note   = {Derived from US Federal Trade Commission. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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