[mytailorisrich]

It's not an "OK boomer" stereotype (which is rather an insult than a stereotype, by the way), it's a general point. It's obviously true that people putting their lives online may be an issue in that field of work (and also an advantage).

One would think that's a slightly lesser problem of the US government than for other countries, though, because essentially all platforms are American. So it's potentially easier for the US intelligence services to 'scrub' someone's online presence than it is for other countries' services.

For instance, they also need to be extremely careful of leaks of real identities because of this as these days these can be used for online scrapping in order to collect pictures and more details. This is taking into account that, if I remember correctly, the database of federal employees and their fingerprints was hacked a few years ago so that we may assume that China (since the finger was pointed at them regarding that hack) has a list of virtually all US Federal employees, on which they can let data scrapping farms work.