It is a

Thursday the 4th of March 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics for the K is a production of the Merseys

Skeptics Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

around UK and internationally. I'm your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice.

Hello. So listeners probably well may or may not be aware depending on whether they follow

me on Twitter that I've I'm out of work at the moment the company that I've been working for with mothballed and so I'm

I'm currently wandering around looking for a job trying to find a new job doing a new job.

Let's get a new job which is a long time since I've had to do, you know,

properly go out and look for a new job. But one of the things I've found particularly frustrating

and experience about it is the number of jobs.

There was one company that wanted me to go and

basically build all of the spyware tools that I've been railing against on this show for the last year in a bit of saying,

you know, we shouldn't be spying on people, this is a bad idea, customers don't like this, etc, etc.

And their whole business was

building those tools to help influencers build their brands and track where

their fans are from and you know etc etc and and they did that by

feeding all of that information back to all

of those third parties and so I refused to interview they you know said you know we'd

like to interview and I refused to interview on the basis the fact that the work that they were doing I felt was unethical.

Nice.

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