True, but where does it end? When will employers start asking to see someone's private medical records to determine employability? I believe that private business is private, but then this private business is jumping over into a private individual's rights.
Yeah, I've got an idea. What if we took only blonde-haired, blue-eyed healthy males --
oh - wait - that was already tried.
I see your point. However, before I was hired by the company I work for now, they did a credit check on me. Even though people go into debt and get into shopaholic stuff on their own time (usually), the company which hired me felt they had a right to check my credit rating. They were concerned that if they hired someone who didn't have control of their own finances that I could be a threat to their finances, through employee theft so they wanted to check to make sure I had decent control over my finances.
I had the right to say no and I would have also been exercising my right not to be hired by them. There is a fine line and we are all struggling with where that line might be.