Thomas Germain
Collaborator · DISC type isThomas Germain is a senior technology journalist at the BBC, where he focuses on the societal consequences of life online, covering AI, privacy, and misinformation. A graduate of Columbia University, his investigative work has had a significant real-world impact, sparking an FTC lawsuit that changed federal law on medical data and prompting Meta to delete facial recognition data for over a billion people.
His recent work includes launching and co-hosting the new BBC podcast, "The Interface, " which decodes major tech stories. In one notable recent experiment for the show, he demonstrated how easily AI chatbots can be manipulated by successfully tricking major AIs into reporting he was a world-champion competitive hot-dog eater.
His reporting on GoodRx’s privacy issues led to an FTC lawsuit that transformed federal law, creating new protections for Americans online medical data.
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