{
  "id": 17486,
  "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/08/ftc-ditches-disparate-impact",
  "title": "FTC Ditches ‘Disparate Impact’",
  "summary": "Commission will no longer bring claims under this pernicious legal theory The Federal Trade Commission today announced a policy statement clarifying that the Commission will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories. View Press Release",
  "authors": "bjames@ftc.gov",
  "category": "policy",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T12:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-us-ftc-press-releases",
  "source_name": "US FTC Press Releases",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17486",
  "original_url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/08/ftc-ditches-disparate-impact",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}