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.
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