The FBI is pushing Congress to pass a law that will require tech companies to more readily share consumer data from mobile phones with law enforcement. On Thursday, U.S. FBI Director James Comey called on Congress to update the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, an act that allows the police to listen in on phone conversations for criminal investigations. Comey is pushing to update the law to include data from smartphones such as apps and email accounts.

Home Depot, Target and Apple have recently made headlines for breaches that exposed customer data which ranges from email address to credit card data and cloud accounts. Despite this fact, most consumers aren't too worried about it. In fact, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute found about three-quarters of consumers have not stopped doing business with a company that has suffered a data breach. The research also revealed that about a third of consumers even ignored notifications from a company that has had data breach issues.

TD Bank NA has settled a data breach case with New York's attorney general, agreeing to pay $850,000 in fines. The bank is charged with losing files that exposed the customer data of up to 260,000 customers back in 2012. As part of the agreement, the bank has agreed to improve its data security protocols.

Seventy-three percent of marketers said that email is effective at generating leads, according to a new report from Forrester Research. In addition, the report revealed that 58 percent of marketers find that email directly leads to sales. Forty percent of marketers revealed that personalization in important to their email strategy and 39 percent said that using dynamic content is important for driving leads and increasing sales.

A doctor that works for the UC Davis Health System has had his email account hacked into, exposing the personal data of 1,326 patients. The organization has notified these patients to tell them about the breach. The leaked information included some personal details, however electronic health records, Social Security numbers and financial information were not exposed.

Salesforce and Microsoft have launch their first joint project a couple of months after revealing a strategic partnership. The partnership allows businesses to access both companies' software in one dashboard. The newly minted Salesforce1 App for Outlook lets businesses manage Salesforce data within Microsoft's email software.

Marketing services firm HubSpot Sidekick has rebranded its Signal tool and added new features that help sales people with email. The tool has been renamed Sidekick and works as an email extension to help make prospecting for new clients more intuitive. The feature, which with Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, allows a sales person to see their contact's professional history, location, email history and common contacts, among other things, giving sales people a map of their connection to the prospect right in the inbox.

Government agencies in the state of Washington experienced email outages yesterday thanks to a problem with their computer network. Two routers in Olympia had issues which led to the network problems. The outage affected the Governor's Office, the state prison system, the Department of Enterprise Service and the Department of Social and Health Services. The issue has been fixed and these agencies are not back on email.

Customers of the UK-based web hosting business Domain Monster has been experiencing email outages for the past week. Customers have been complaining about the issue on Twitter. According to Host Europe Group, which owns the Domain Monster brand, the problem stems from technical issues that took place when the company updated its mail system last week. They are working to resolve the outage.

Wells Fargo CFO John Shrewsberry did an interview with CNC this week explaining that wages at the bank are competitive, claiming that employees are happy with their pay, according to in-house surveys. The interview comes after bank employee Tyrel Oates cced more than 260,000 colleagues on an email that he sent to the bank's CEO John Stumpf asking for a $10,000 raise for all employees.