That needs to be said right from the start. It is massively speculative, but the mind of greed driven American is essentially easy, their actions can be predicted, no predictive model required. The American corporation LinkedIn had seemingly driven itself in a hard sell. You see, they need data and with this administration they are considering that the bully tactics are seemingly working. You see every Thursday there is a roundup of your data and they have given that allegedly a twist. Apparently all data was lost, wiped or whatever they tend to call it. I reckon that some person there is giving the people the “our faulty AI had a glitch”, but I know that AI does not exist, it is all Deeper Machine Learning with additional LLM combined into predictive modeling.
My speculative version is that they will come with some “We fixed it in out premium setting. You know the first month is free, no cost to you”, but there is a glitch, you need to enter credit card details and that is what they are allegedly after. Data is power and Credit card details give them a lot of verifiable data, non refutable data and Yanks are hungry for data, especially as Europe and the Commonwealth are closing data taps. As I see it, these American corporations are seeing the end of their lifecycle and their existence is the balance, as such they need more verifiable data.
So could I be wrong?
Definitely, but the wiping of your result data can (as I personally see it) only defined by two options and optionally both options. The first one is that LinkedIn has enabled ghosting for some corporations that are ready to pay a premium plus subscription. They look at a person and then they wipe that data of their visit, optionally wiping a little too much, because one entry is hard to hide, but wiping the entire batch of data one account had at least 6 visits in the last week, but the recall only shows one visit and when you look at “Top companies your searchers work at” you get zero results, so that is an option. With 1156 all appearances in the last 7 days (-76%) and 1 search appearance (0%) in the last 7 days , so its own systems are already breaking each other alibi in the process.
I am more for the second setting, They are hungry for financial data and whilst the service is free in the first month, the moment they have these details they can combine and match that data to supermarket data, to retail data and a footprint is created. A predictive model of where the people are headed to. That is financial power, enabling the have’s to the have not people. This is a term from Dutch Journalist Luc Sala who gave us that in the 90s. And now we see that enablement in a much larger proportion.
So in all I could be wrong and you can decide for yourself. Consider if you re a LinkedIn user if your data was ‘accidentally’ wiped and you left it to the side because you have more important things to worry about. In the end, I have my suspicions but let it be known just of the bat. I have no evidence, merely indicators and it is all pure speculation. But in the trend of freedom of speech I can put it here. I also believe in accountability, so I am giving the clear speculation vibe, because anything else needs evidence and whilst I have some evidence, sit might not be enough to cut the mustard and that needs to be known as well.
So have a great day today and consider that your autumn (November – April) could be spend in WaterWorld (Abu Dhabi) they just got another Guinness World book record in their name, they now have 55 slides and 15 other stages in their park (like the Al Raha River and the Bandit Bomber roller coaster) to name but two. You could make your neighbours jealous by coming back towards Christmas with a nice tan, did I mention that the UAE is a zero tax nation, the best place for getting the gifts at a massive discount.
Until next time.
Lawrence van Rijn - Law Lord to be 