Say you write children's books. As a promotion for your latest work, you decide to visit a few schools and read to children. But before you can do this, first you'll have to shell out roughly $104 to register for a national database. The database will run a background check on you to ensure that you're not a pedophile.
Sound like over kill? Tell that to Britain's Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).
This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2009.