Facebook Incorporated is a social media company based in the United States that founded Facebook in 2004 and later purchased Instagram and WhatsApp. These social media platforms are accessible in multiple countries through the internet, and apps on cell phones and tablets. As of November 2016 Instagram has over 200 million users, Facebook has over 1.79 billion users, and WhatsApp has 500 million users (zephoria). None of the platforms charge a membership fee and are completely free to use. Facebook Incorporated makes a profit by charging third party companies for advertising to their users. In fiscal year 2015 the company had a revenue of 17,928 million (NASDAQ). Through these platforms a user is able to upload photos, videos, and to message
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Before this occurs the company began to collect and retain all of Facebook’s users’ profile information on its servers (FTC). The data for each user was assigned a specific and unique identification number (FTC). Facebook eventually allows the third party advertisers access to identification numbers of users that click on their posted advertisements (FTC). Through these identification numbers the advertisers could obtain all of the user’s profile information including photos and videos, time, date, and length of time the user visited the advertisement website, and specifically which pages were viewed (FTC). Facebook even kept and sold the profile information, photos, and videos of users after the user had already deleted their information or deactivated their account (FTC). Along the same time the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States began to use a top secret program called PRISM (NSA). Through PRISM the NSA was allowed to collect information about Facebook users both in real time and through the stored data on Facebook’s servers (NSA). The collected information was then distributed from the NSA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency (NSA). The information collected was not restricted to only users in the United States, but also included users from across the globe …show more content…
Due to its ground breaking nature, the database is an intellectual creation and is protected under the WIPO Copyright Treaty per article 5. Furthermore, the company is based in America and should only have to comply with U.S. regulations. It would be unreasonable for another state to interfere with the sovereign and domestic law of the United States. To do so would be a violation of the United Nations Charter Article 2(1). Under 1 U.S.C. § 1 any Act of Congress that uses “person” and “whoever” pertains to corporations. This extends the same protected American rights for individual citizens to any American based company. There have been multiple Supreme Court rulings over the years affirming this. Specifically, this is seen in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888) regarding the fourteenth amendment and in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) regarding the first
Before this occurs the company began to collect and retain all of Facebook’s users’ profile information on its servers (FTC). The data for each user was assigned a specific and unique identification number (FTC). Facebook eventually allows the third party advertisers access to identification numbers of users that click on their posted advertisements (FTC). Through these identification numbers the advertisers could obtain all of the user’s profile information including photos and videos, time, date, and length of time the user visited the advertisement website, and specifically which pages were viewed (FTC). Facebook even kept and sold the profile information, photos, and videos of users after the user had already deleted their information or deactivated their account (FTC). Along the same time the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States began to use a top secret program called PRISM (NSA). Through PRISM the NSA was allowed to collect information about Facebook users both in real time and through the stored data on Facebook’s servers (NSA). The collected information was then distributed from the NSA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency (NSA). The information collected was not restricted to only users in the United States, but also included users from across the globe …show more content…
Due to its ground breaking nature, the database is an intellectual creation and is protected under the WIPO Copyright Treaty per article 5. Furthermore, the company is based in America and should only have to comply with U.S. regulations. It would be unreasonable for another state to interfere with the sovereign and domestic law of the United States. To do so would be a violation of the United Nations Charter Article 2(1). Under 1 U.S.C. § 1 any Act of Congress that uses “person” and “whoever” pertains to corporations. This extends the same protected American rights for individual citizens to any American based company. There have been multiple Supreme Court rulings over the years affirming this. Specifically, this is seen in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888) regarding the fourteenth amendment and in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) regarding the first