Agree. But based on my experience, from "back in the day", I have to wonder how a lie on an application got through in the 1st place.  The 2 background checks I went through over the years, along with the then polygraph's, now likely VSA's (voice stress analyzers), made inaccurate info on applications pretty hard to slip through.  Guess in the new era of employee confidentiality, where so many employers decline to give anything beyond dates of employment and whether someone is eligible for re-hire or not, things have changed.