Concerns for individual privacy also contributed to passage of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and the 1988 Employee Polygraph Protection Act. The latter permits private security companies to test job applicants and allows companies that manufacture or sell controlled substances to test both job applicants and current employees.

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Polygraph Tests May

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Polygraph tests may:

A) be legally used by most private employers to screen job applicants.
B) be legally used by most private employers to randomly check current employees.
C) be legally used by private companies that sell controlled substances to screen and randomly check current employees.
D) never be used in connection with employment.
E) only be used by government organizations to regularly check current employees.

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