Facebook GC Tells Lawyers He’s Looking for a Fight

Facebook's legal department is ready for a fight. Almost every day, law enforcement officials and civil litigators request information from a user's Facebook account, Deputy General Counsel Mark Howitson told several hundred lawyers in a packed ballroom during his keynote address Tuesday morning at LegalTech New York. But he is still waiting for a case on Facebook's policies to go before a federal judge to define exactly what content on Facebook is protected.