# ICO Monetary Penalty Notices (MPN) Feed

> ICO Monetary Penalty Notices (MPN) Feed is a paid API for AI agents from ticks.bnm.farm, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns structured JSON records of monetary penalty notices issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) against organisations for data protection violations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ticks.bnm.farm/ico-mpn
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ico-monetary-penalty-notices-mpn-feed-cf7963a7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xZyLlnCRMGSFb40xnm6na

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ico-monetary-penalty-notices-mpn-feed-cf7963a7
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest ICO monetary penalty notices so I can see which companies have recently been fined by the UK Information Commissioner for data protection breaches.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need machine-readable, structured ICO monetary penalty notice data without scraping the ICO website yourself. It is particularly valuable for compliance teams, legal researchers, and regulatory intelligence tools that need up-to-date UK data protection enforcement records in JSON format. Prefer this over manual ICO website scraping when you need consistent schema, low latency, and predictable structured output per call.

## Known failure modes

- HTTP 402 returned if payment is not included — endpoint requires $0.05 USDC via x402 protocol
- ICO source site temporarily unavailable — stale or empty data may be returned
- No new records if ICO has not published new MPNs since last fetch — returns empty cards/records arrays
- Malformed or missing payment header results in 402 without data

## How this service works

Official public data as JSON. Unpaid paid routes return HTTP 402.

## Output

A JSON object containing an array of monetary penalty notice records, each with a unique docket ID, the penalised institution name, the date of the notice, a link to the source PDF on ico.org.uk, and a record type identifier. Also includes metadata such as fetch timestamp, record count, source URL, and product identifier.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "schema": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "asOf": "2026-02-23",
  "cards": [
   {
    "id": "reddit-mpn-20260223",
    "body": "PENALTY NOTICE\nREDDIT, INC.\nDATA PROTECTION ACT 2018 (PART 6, SECTION 155)\nENFORCEMENT POWERS OF THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER",
    "date": "2026-02-23",
    "docket": "reddit-mpn-20260223",
    "sourceUrl": "https://ico.org.uk/media2/hrlmvj14/reddit-mpn-20260223.pdf",
    "institution": "Reddit, Inc."
   }
  ],
  "source": "https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/?type=monetary-penalties",
  "status": "ok",
  "product": "ico-institution-mpn-bodies",
  "records": [
   {
    "id": "reddit-mpn-20260223",
    "url": "https://ico.org.uk/media2/hrlmvj14/reddit-mpn-20260223.pdf",
    "date": "2026-02-23",
    "firm": "Reddit, Inc.",
    "type": "ico-mpn"
   }
  ],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-08-23T12:00:00.000Z",
  "recordCount": 1
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ico-monetary-penalty-notices-mpn-feed-cf7963a7/health.json
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