The Senate rejected a proposed bill that would have given the FBI the authority to access citizen's Internet browsing histories and email records without a warrant. The bill's supporters suggested that terrorist attacks would be thwarted if the FBI had more control. Privacy rights advocates contended that the bill would lead to more government surveillance.

Communciations company Eir is warning customers to beware a new phishing email scam. The spam message includes the real Eir logo and instructs recipients to click on a malicious link to accept a refund. The offer is fake and is being used to steal the personal information of customers.

New documents released by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal issues with spam filters for Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State in 2010. She and her staff were having difficulty communicating with State Department officials via email due to spam filters. The State Department IT responded by turning the filters off.

Ryanair sent out a email last night before news that Britain voted to leave the UK, which offered a sale on flights in hopes that the UK would remain in Europe. The email led with the line: "Celebrate remaining in Europe with 1 million seats from GBP9.99." So much for the celebratory flash sale.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has plans to reach out to President Obama's email list. Obama's list is highly regarded for Democrats. He used the list to raise $500 million through email and online donations in the 2012 campaign cycle alone. The move could really help increase Clinton's fundraising efforts.

Microsoft is embroiled in a legal issue with the U.S. government: The government has ruled that the software giant must turn over the private emails of users, while the company contends that private user data stored on servers in Ireland should not be subject to U.S. jurisdiction. According to a new report, Silk Road, the online e-commerce site that functioned like an eBay for drug dealers, is apparently at the center of the fight. The email account at the heart of the legal case belongs to Gary Davis, an Irish citizen who is currently fighting extradition to the U.S. to …

Atlantic Media's digital news site Quartz has teamed up with Cannes Lions to do the official newsletter dedicated to the event. The first email dropped on Monday at the festival and went out to 15,000 marketing professionals who attended the show. Daily the publishers has been delivering the wrapup of the event to attendees' inboxes.

Forty percent of news sites and 16 percent of SaaS sites are vulnerable to hackers, according to a new report from Swedish company Detectify. The research analyzed the top 500 websites according to Alexa and found that 276 of these domains are vulnerable to attack.

Hillary Clinton's private server did not have security features up and running in December 2010, a time when she had technical issues with her email. The following year her server was hacked, according to new emails published by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.

California lawmakers are working to fix an initiative which requires registered sex offenders to disclose their email addresses, screen names and other electronic information to authorities. The Proposition 35 was approved by 81 percent of voters in 2012, but was dropped after an appeals court ruled that the measure violated the free speech rights of sex offenders who have served their prison terms. The bill has given lawmakers the time to fix the constitutional problems, a decision that was unanimously pushed through to the State Assembly.