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VimalKundal (Administrator)     09 November 2010

Polygraph Test

Can the passing or failing of polygraph tests – NOT in the context of criminal hearings -  be considered a condition for employment – if the candidate for employment agrees and signs a legal consent to this effect?



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Democratic Indian (n/a)     09 November 2010

In my opinion, use of polygraph tests for the purpose of employment also amounts to intruding the fundamental right to PRIVACY of person. It violates the both mental and physical privacy of person. The prospective employee is not going to a doctor to get himself treated, so that the doctor needs to subject his patient to a reading/interpretation of his mental and physical parameters with help of an instrument(polygraph). Also the accuracy of polygraph tests itself, is not always reliable, hence it can also amount to DISCRIMINATION based on the unreliable/misleading tests of polygraph. A person trained to fool the polygraph test can successfully bypass the polygraph test and come out clean and be selected.

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