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It was the US government that created the drug testing for jobs, when they passed laws requiring it for a variety of government jobs. This had a secondary effect of requiring it for private employers working with government, and then it grew from there.

I did it once, many years ago, and then adopted a policy of refusing it (even though I don't use drugs or even alcohol.)

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What I find funny about the drug testing policy is how easy it is to circumvent and the side industry that exists to provide the tools needed to circumvent it.

I could see the same thing happening if employers started requiring social media credentials. An new kind of social network would have an easy differentiator - "Come to our new social network, along with everything else, you can trust us because we give you two logins: a secure login that you keep for yourself and a compromised login that you give to the government and your employer."

Give us both logins, please.

Well perhaps its one login with a safe word, like the spy's do in the movies when the agents on the phone ask them if they are safe and there are several words they can use to respond to.

I wonder if it is something I might use, not just for an interview with a potential employer but on other computers, not under my control.

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