Bar Code Scanning for Consumer Empowerment?

OK, we’ve been seeing consumer-oriented bar-code scanner technology around for years now. Can I ask you activists something? Why haven’t we done something with this yet? Wouldn’t it be useful to have a bar-code scanner in your cel phone which you could use which would tell you that the manufacturer of an item pollutes rivers, abuses workers, sends jobs overseas, contributes to antiabortion terrorists, doesn’t abide by safety rules for the product, etc? Hell, I can tell you *I* would use it. Seems to me the big costs would be legal and in maintaining a database of information. Please, discuss.

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