Meanwhile, the oversight panel has set a hearing Friday on expanding the scrutiny of social media postings by applicants for new or renewed security clearances. The hearing comes a year after breaches of two major databases were disclosed—including one holding information from background checks of more than 20 million current and former federal employees and others—set off a reappraisal of how such checks are to be conducted and how that information is protected. OPM has said it is in the process of developing a pilot program to test how monitoring of social media could fit into those checks. Similar tests already have been conducted for some intelligence jobs. However, expanding such reviews to employees not involved in such work likely would raise more substantial issues of the balance between an individual’s privacy and the agency’s security needs.