Drug Testing

Required Reading

In his article Introduction to Dataveillance and Information Privacy, and Definitions of Terms Roger Clarke goes over the background issues on information privacy. Please read this article. Click here: Introduction to Dataveillance and Information Privacy (2007). Retrieved 2009 from http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/Intro.html.

please read the following two articles from Proquest in our cyber library:

Drug testing: The things people will do

The American Salesman; Burlington; Mar 2001; Anonymous;

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Abstract:

Many companies have instituted drug testing policies to insure their workforce is drug-free. This, of course, has created the demand for products designed to help those who would normally fail to pass the tests. Unlike the urine test, which can only test for recent use of drugs, the hair test allows companies to look back into a person's past few months of possible drug use. This is because when someone uses drugs, the chemicals are absorbed into the skin and stay there for a long period of time. One other benefit of having a drug testing policy or requiring prospective employees to take drug test is those who use drugs usually will not want to work for a company that touts employees and that may be the easiest way to screen out possible problem employees without ever having to pay for the tests at all.

Read:

Workers Get Greater Drug Test Protection

New York Times; New York, N.Y.; Dec 15, 2000; Laurence Zuckerman;

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