Your Social Media Habits Could Soon Affect Your Security Clearance

Government Executive: A memo released by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper paves the way for agencies to conduct social media checks in the course of doing security clearance background investigations.

Any information searched must be related to the 13 adjudicative criteria, and must be publicly available. A background investigator will not be asking for your login credentials, but you should expect your name to be searched on popular search engines and social media sites once the policy is implemented.

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