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Security Clearance Background Checks to Include Social Media

You should know how social media works: don't say stupid things which you might later regret; it's viewable by everyone. It's probably best not to quote that thing that Hitler said as a positive message.
 
That's the whole point of security clearance. They want a picture of who you are, what you think, how you behave.
 
Some companies already check your Facebook and Twitter before employing you.

Fortunately I do have Twitter but I almost never use it, and I do try to moderate my Facebook comments and not swear too much and stuff because eventually when they're old enough I want my nephew and niece to friend me on there.
 
hiraeth said:
I had assumed for years that this was already being done.
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Given the actual public sector parties involved and all their inherently intrusive practices, I'm sure of this. That this is more a case of the legal environment evolving...effectively and formally putting the public on notice. But as a routine practice, it's been happening for a long time.

I've been exposed to such forms of screening for employment in the past. It's brutal.
 
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Welcome to a world where what little privacy one has now will be gone in another decade or two. I've even heard about experimental entertainment systems that enable the company to see who is using/watching the media. I suspect that there are strangers out there who know more about our private lives than we do. The only way out is to abandon technology and get out of 'civilized' society.
 
midlife aspie said:
Welcome to a world where what little privacy one has now will be gone in another decade or two. I've even heard about experimental entertainment systems that enable the company to see who is using/watching the media. I suspect that there are strangers out there who know more about our private lives than we do. The only way out is to abandon technology and get out of 'civilized' society.
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Anyone recall the film "Minority Report" ? The star of the show wasn't Tom Cruise. It was an invasive, out-of-control technology and a well-meaning society who enabled it. "Creeping dystopia". :eek:
 
It's always been like that, all thru history. Announcing it, only means they where doing it secretly before. For instance, native Americans probably had to watch what they said with smoke signals. The cone of silence is the only truely secure means of communication.
 
Sportster said:
I don't do Facebook or Twitter. Besides hearing about the nightmare problems others have experienced like those mentioned by Rich Allen, I've personally not been attracted to it. The closest I come to social media is a YouTube channel (let the laughter begin) and here. In both cases I use an alias, since the world really doesn't need to know who I am or anything about me. I prefer to be an enigma in cyberspace.
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I agree 100%. AC is about as close social media as I get, or social anything. I just do not socialize much and I still have to watch what I say. Kind of hard for a Aspie.
 
Not a surprise Judge, it's something I did for awhile, until I discovered that the organization had no protective firewalls for the people that worked for them. Which set us up for online stalking and the like. It was very easy to find information about people, especially in the early days of the internet, when no one realized just how open it was.

Message boards, genealogy, and when twitter came about and FB, it made it even easier. Recall being able to find a person who was stalking someone online, he had a twitter account that was not private, as well as a photo stream. I wrote up a bio of this fellow, including all of his family, the names of his children, dog, and all his relatives, the company that employed him, where they lived, phone numbers, addresses, and it took me a day to find this information.

This information was used by the organization to protect the young teenager being stalked, once he was shown the information about himself, he stopped stalking the teen, and the bio was destroyed.

Some are simply not careful, the internet is absolutely not like a private letter. Although people seem to regard it as such at times.
 
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Sportster said:
It shocks me how people don't grasp that fact. My friends' daughter posted her address and phone number on Facebook, plus made her page public. I was aghast, as I could clearly see all that info even though I don't possess a Facebook account. I quickly called and let him know what I found since he's even less Facebook savvy than I am.

Another friend is an engineer for a local company. He told me about the company asking about his and his family's Facebook accounts, which they do not have. Personally, I think the world has gone crazy by relying on social media too much. It has killed our ability to actually communicate and have genuine relationships, as most of what's out there is bogus and/or superficial.

If I need to convey something important, I'll send an old-fashioned letter through the mail. It's secure and classy at the same time.
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I read a article in the paper (old people still read the paper) the other day that was about the percentage of people that get all of their news from Facebook. The number was huge. I think that it is alarming that anyone would depend on Facebook for their news intake.
 
I would say that chance are any mainstream news source would be a more balanced source of news than the average person's Facebook feed.

I am so over social media. I want to delete all my accounts like, all the damn time. I just do not because almost all of my socializing is online, with people in different parts of the world, and I want to maintain those channels of communication for the people I like to talk to occasionally but are not close enough to that I would feel comfortable having them switch to another platform just for my sake. There are already some very serious reasons that lead me to remove or deliberately lose touch with people from my life on a regular or predictable basis. "They don't use the platform I want" seems just nonsensical in comparison.

For now, it makes me a little bit less uncomfortable that I disciplined myself to exclusively use the messaging features of social media sites. I do not ever "randomly scroll" my news feed. It is never healthy for me, and I learned that the hard way.
 
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