Security clearance background checks to include social media

Friday, May 13, 2016 - 13:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances—something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic case of the government playing catch-up with technology.

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