I'm Being Watched...

So... I'm in Starbucks (Big Surprise), minding my own business, using my iPhone app to pay when the guy behind me asks if that is like using a SB Card. Because I'm as addicted to my phone as I am to SB, I happily answer "Yes!" His response: "That's neat, but you know it's part of the Big Brother Conspiracy." Really??? I didn't wave at my annoying neighbor, so was this Karma catching up with me? As my main goal was to get rid of a caffeine-deprivation headache, I did not have a snappy answer until I was 1/2 way through my pain killer - something about paranoia, credit cards, traffic cameras, the internet and that maybe there's a GPS in my filling...