Finally, perhaps the most interesting aspect of employee privacy concerns the methods by which employers might gather information about employees. In recent years polygraph and drug testing, surveillance, third-party back-ground checks, and psychological testing have or been used as means to gain information about employees. More recently, electronic monitoring and surveillance has raised privacy issues in the workplace. Typically but not always, such techniques are used to investigate misconduct such as employee theft. In addition, genetic, screening of potential and present employees suggests that this new technology will keep employee privacy concerns in the public eye for many years to come