Barcodes - are they intended to control people?

Some conspiracy theorists have proposed that barcodes are really intended to serve as means of control by a putative world government. Find out tomorrow what fringe groups are doing to prevent this.

Are barcodes a means of identifying a product, or a mean of controlling people?

If you like conspiracy theories or spy stories, you'll enjoy this ya spy/thriller.

Feedback, released Sept 7, 2012

Synopsis:

Ethan, Florida and Jake need organ transplants. When they receive the organs of a dead CIA agent, they take on more than the task of completing the mission of deactivating bombs that threaten millions of lives. Kidnapped, their lives under threat, the memories stored in the CIA agent’s mind begin to awaken within each of them, except the one piece of information they are abducted for - the location of the bombs.