Seisent, ChoicePoint, others were tracking everyone in North America by at least 2005, with partial coverage for Central America, South America, Caribbean. Just from public records, which at the time was ~1600 data feeds. Seisent's sales person told us the NSA bought one of their clusters and included their own data feeds (communications, transactions).
I assume by now multiple parties, both private and governmental, know everything about everyone, living and dead, in near real time.
And that's the reason we need the EU to make more laws like GDPR and the "right to be forgotten".
The US is controlled by big business, so there is no realistic hope that the US will make laws to protect our privacy from corporations, but the EU works for its citizens.
