Thomas Germain is a senior technology journalist at BBC and co-host of The Interface podcast. His reporting covers AI, privacy, social media, and the hidden systems that shape our world, exploring how we use technology and how technology uses us. Germain's work has shaped public debate around some of the world’s most powerful companies. His investigation of the health-tech company GoodRX sparked an FTC lawsuit that created groundbreaking new protections for online medical data. Under pressure from his reporting, Meta deleted facial recognition data on more than a billion people.