HIPAA only covers what medical info companies keep on you. They can ask and you can decline, but they can also refuse to hire you. HIPAA is to keep companies from selling your data without permisson and to keep people from calling medical offices and getting your data. It also holds any companies keeping medical data liable if your data is leaked. Unfortunately, it doesn't say that companies of any kind can't ask or require your data; it only covers what happens to it after you provide it.
What privacy laws are you talking about?
Can a company ask if you have AIDS before hiring you?
It was a serious question.
HIPPA Privacy laws.
HIPAA only covers what medical info companies keep on you. They can ask and you can decline, but they can also refuse to hire you. HIPAA is to keep companies from selling your data without permisson and to keep people from calling medical offices and getting your data. It also holds any companies keeping medical data liable if your data is leaked. Unfortunately, it doesn't say that companies of any kind can't ask or require your data; it only covers what happens to it after you provide it.
HIPAA.
Your personal health info is not the business of an employer.
HIPAA