The job application and interview process is a great time for companies to extract really personal information from applicants because of the power differential. Most jobseekers are desperate enough to answer even the most ridiculous invasions of privacy in order to secure that job.
We had numerous cases here were the job applications were a front to collect data and sell them on to insurance and multi level marketing companies in order for them to generate leads for them. So scammy.
The lightbulb came on for me at an agency where they wanted us to complete a survey for the company providing the urine drug screening. I got a chance to talk to the very revealing employee behind it and he admitted it was all a scam. The tests only cost the agency 5 bucks, but they jacked the price up to like $35 payable before we were even offered any work. The agency split the fees with the testing company. The guy also tole me that the survey results would be sold, so I shouldn't put in any real information. It was eye-opening.
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You have to pay for your own urine screening as part of the pre-employment check up? That sure sounds like a scam ripe for abuse.