TNB Tech Minute: FTC Orders Instacart to Pay $60 Million Over Deceptive Practices
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For government and business leaders, AI isn't the future. It's the force reshaping today. |
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| 0:16.2 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, December 18th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:23.6 | Instacart has been ordered to pay $60 million in refunds to customers to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it used deceptive practices to raise costs for shoppers. |
| 0:35.2 | The FTC alleged that the grocery delivery platform falsely advertised |
| 0:39.7 | free delivery and 100% satisfaction guarantee and also didn't adequately disclose the terms for |
| 0:46.2 | Instacart Plus membership. The FTC claimed consumers were still charged a service fee for deliveries |
| 0:51.7 | and said that Instacart's satisfaction guarantee implied a refund |
| 0:55.4 | to unsatisfied customers, which the company didn't do. Instacart denies the allegations. |
| 1:01.9 | An Iranian-linked hacker group leaked sensitive personal data belonging to former Israeli Prime |
| 1:07.0 | Minister Naftali Bennett this week, including chat messages in a contact list that featured |
| 1:11.8 | several world leaders. The breach is part of a growing wave of hack and leak operations targeting |
| 1:17.2 | Israeli officials and government agencies since the war in Gaza began in October 2023. |
| 1:22.9 | These attacks have compromised data from the Justice Ministry, the Ministry of National Security, |
| 1:28.0 | and hospital medical records. Experts note a huge uptick in these less sophisticated attacks, which often |
| 1:33.7 | target out-of-date or unpatched security systems, or use fishing. Israeli officials expect |
| 1:39.9 | Iranian cyber attacks to continue, as they give Iran away to fight without escalating to all that war. |
| 1:46.4 | And defense group Rhein Matal has said it will team up with satellite operator Isai to supply |
| 1:52.0 | the German armed forces with spaced-based reconnaissance data. The roughly $2 billion contract |
| 1:57.9 | will provide images through its satellite constellation. |
| 2:04.9 | Ryan Mottal said the data would mainly be used to protect the German Armed Forces, |
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