Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has upheld that a government warrant to access the email account as part of a money laundering case is valid. According to his ruling, courts have allowed law enforcement officials to seize documents to build cases even if only to determine if the content falls within the warrant. The decision differs from other case around the country in which judges have shot down such requests saying that giving law enforcement access to a person's entire inbox gives them access to information which does …

The US government can obtain a citizen's email address, credit card information and IP address as part of its data collection on international travelers. Citizens that fly abroad are assigned a Passenger Name Record (PNR), which is a digitized record of their travel created by an airline or a travel agency. The PNR is given to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) when a citizen travels internationally and includes all of this personal data.

The UK government is working to implement a program in which they plan to send warning emails to citizens that illegally download music, movies and other content. The emails are aimed at educating citizens about the rules against digital piracy. The government has obtained the email addresses as part of a partnership with ISPs. The program will begin in 2015.

The majority of small-to-medium sized businesses have not update their practices to be compliant with CASL, new Canadian Antispam Legislation, according to a new report from Constant Contact. The research revealed that only 42 percent of respondents admitted that they understand how to make their businesses CASL compliant. The new legislation, which went into effect earlier this month, requires that marketers obtain "explicit" versus "implied" permission. Marketers that do not comply face hefty fines.

Pinpointe On-Demand, Mad Mimi, AWeber Email Marketing, StreamSend, Benchmark Email, SimplyCast, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, Elite Email and HyperMail are the top 10 email marketing providers in Turkey, according to new research from turkey.topseos.com. The website rates these firms on a monthly basis, assessing the company's product offerings, their connections, as well as their customer references.

CRM services firm PossibleNOW has introduced a new tool designed to help brands cut down on email opt-outs by giving customers the ability to set preferences. The MyPreferences Campaign is a cloud-based platform that allows consumers to decide how often they receive emails from a company and what kinds of products and services they want to hear about. In addition, the tool allows consumers to opt-out of program-specific emails while remaining on the company's list for other mailings.

The average person receives 115 emails a day, according to the Radicati Group. This number is only going to rise. By 2015, the average person will see 125 emails in their inbox a day. The research also revealed that most of people spend 28 percent of their working life reading and responding to emails.

More than 40 percent of b-to-b marketers say that only 5 percent of anonymous website visitors to their website actually share their email address, according to a new study from Bizo and Oracle Marketing Cloud. The study, which calls into question the effectiveness of email as a lead nurturing tool, also found that their email open rates average less than 20 percent.

Encrypted email service provider Silent Circle has teamed up with the Spanish phone maker GeeksPhone to release a new smartphone that is designed to keep the communications on the phone private. Blackphone comes loaded with secure communications tools offered by Silent Circle including an encrypted email tool, a private calling and messaging service, as well as silent text and silent contacts features.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent out a plan to streamline Microsoft's engineering process via email early this morning. In the message, Nadella revealed plans to cut up to 18,000 jobs over the next year. "We are moving now to start reducing the first 13,000 positions, and the vast majority of employees whose jobs will be eliminated will be notified over the next six months," he wrote in the email.