Security Clearance (SC) Q&A Read first before asking questions

[Hidingfromwork]

Your last two paragraphs could in part be the reason. Why would you think otherwise? Troll account alert. You were asked to provide details of social media and you didn't provide them with all accounts.

Wind it in, I'm not a troll.

It's the same answer I've given every other time I've been through vetting for clearance, re social media: everything else is private / not something I associate with my name

And frankly the amount of accounts I've made on different forms of social site (reddit, forums, gaming services) etc would be too long to recall. The only one I keep associated with me is linkedin.

[SussexSeagull]

Never gone higher than SC but I believe the old joke with DV clearance was they knew things about you that you didn't know about yourself. As Enhanced SC is between the two it could be anything.

[Hidingfromwork]

Never gone higher than SC but I believe the old joke with DV clearance was they knew things about you that you didn't know about yourself. As Enhanced SC is between the two it could be anything.

I'm not too worried because I really doubt I'll ever need DV or anything more than SC but it makes me wonder what did it for me

On the form it had something about outgoings, and I misread it as my monthly bills because I help prop up a big household, so then got an email back saying "are you sure this is right?" and I realised the outgoings were meant for gambling lol, and I thought yeah I don't think they want someone who spends £2k+ a month on gambling lol and was able to correct it.

I never got told the specifics, but I think my mum has some kind of criminal record from her days living rough back in the 80s.... she said to me once she wouldn't be allowed to serve on a jury. But the same woman also worked at nursing homes and as a home carer for the elderly when I was in primary and secondary school, so not sure how that would be OK for that but would hurt me for this.

[NotAllThere]

You were asked to provide details of social media and you didn't provide them with all accounts.

This.

If you think your "private" social media accounts are anonymous, then you're not very aware.

[malvolio]

I'm not too worried because I really doubt I'll ever need DV or anything more than SC but it makes me wonder what did it for me

On the form it had something about outgoings, and I misread it as my monthly bills because I help prop up a big household, so then got an email back saying "are you sure this is right?" and I realised the outgoings were meant for gambling lol, and I thought yeah I don't think they want someone who spends £2k+ a month on gambling lol and was able to correct it.

I never got told the specifics, but I think my mum has some kind of criminal record from her days living rough back in the 80s.... she said to me once she wouldn't be allowed to serve on a jury. But the same woman also worked at nursing homes and as a home carer for the elderly when I was in primary and secondary school, so not sure how that would be OK for that but would hurt me for this.

You won't be told the specifics, it would rather defeat the whole purpose of vetting if you know what they are looking for. It is a risk assessment for a specific set of circumstances so you can't even compare one with another.

FWIW it might not even be anything in your past. Your social media might have shown up a connection to someone who is of interest. And as an aside, discussing it here is not doing you any favours either...

Whatever, you lost, there's no point in worrying about it since there is absolutely bugger all you can do about it.