Thomas
Germain
I'm a technology journalist at the BBC, where I write the column Keeping Tabs and host The Interface podcast.

I cover the hidden underbelly of the digital world — how tech companies manipulate you (and each other) in their fight to dominate the internet. For almost a decade, I've exposed how AI, surveillance, and online power struggles distort our lives.

My work on health privacy sparked a FTC lawsuit that transformed federal law to protect Americans' online medical data for the very first time. After my investigation into Facebook's privacy problems, Meta deleted facial recognition data for over a billion people.

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