Wil3ur is correct about these particular things, though:
Those are not conspiracy theories, or crazy, or baseless conjecture anymore.
It's technology. My mother-in-law (God rest her dear recently departed soul) was so scared of damned near everything she learned about ... on the internet ... that she made a large list of technological products to avoid at all costs because the government would be tracking her every movement. The wife and I knew that if we challenged her with 'What the heck do they want to track you, specifically, for? What super secrets or criminal activity are you up to?' she would just go on endlessly about how that wasn't the point at all. You, know .... pointlessly.
