The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that meant talking to neighbors and family. Today, with more than a billion individuals on facebook, what a person says and does on social media can often give a better insight on who they really are. Since 2008, various federal agencies have conducted studies on using social media data in investigations and they all find the same thing, that there
Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that m
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Mr. Lynch the cost estimate. You know, we had some pilot programs that tell us its somewhere between, you know, 100 and 500 per person for a private vendor to do this screening, this gathering of social media information. Is that pretty close to what the in practice what were finding . Mr. Scott yeah, i would say some of the pilots that have run the estimates are within that range. Clearly one of the things that will have to happen, and i think the pilots will inform this, some greater level of automation. As you can probably appreciate when you do a search, you get a ton of data that has to be sifted through and adjudicated and i happen to be a person who has a name thats shared with, you know, a professional baseball player, professional museum, a movie director and a bunch of other things. Just a simple search would turn up a bunch of crazy stuff that wouldnt be relevant. So some degree of automation ultimately is going to have to help bring the cost down of that. Mr. Lynch all righ