>>>Should an employer be entitled to that? What about your insurer?
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>Good questions and they need to be addressed once the facts are available.
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>I might be a relic of the age of reason, but in general I think that the best outcomes occur when all people involved have all the available facts.

And OTOH why wouldn't this be symmetrical? I may have to pay to have my financials checked when I'm renting a place, as the renter needs to know whether I'm solvent - but then why doesn't he pay me to check him?

This asymmetry already goes too far.