The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has sued the state of Pennsylvania over the destruction of emails. The newspaper alleges that the state destroyed emails after five days, which were legally supposed to be archived for two years. In the complaint filed in Commonwealth Court, the newspaper has accused the state government of violating the release of public records under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law.

Researchers from Rhino Security Labs have discovered a weakness in LinkedIn's email contacts feature. The feature allows LinkedIn users to import their email contact list into the social network to find connections that they already know. The researchers tested what would happen if they put in the fake email addresses that are tied to potentially famous people. They ran a test for Mark Cuban and found that by populating their email account's contacts list with hundreds of versions of famous peoples names attached to @gmail.com, @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com accounts, that they could identify the real email addresses of famous people …

The Los Angeles Unified School District's board voted unanimously to buy an email archiving software from Microsoft which will automatically delete emails that are more than a year old. The move is raising controversy as some law officials believe that auto deleting these emails could violate state law. Other officials argue that deleting emails after one year follows a 2012 state policy which requires the district to delete year-old emails unless they are specifically designated as public records.

Government employees in Cook County Illinois, the state's most populous county, have been left without email for more than three days. The county board revealed that a hardware malfunction on one of the agency's computer servers has led to the issue which has left about 6,500 employees without access to email. The organization is currently investigating the issue and trying to address the problem.

Yahoo began sharing user data with the National Security Agency in 2008 after being threatened with daily fines of $250,000 a day for non-compliance. These new revelations came out of government documents which were made public by the justice department last week. Tech companies had been criticized by citizens for sharing private user data, including email data, with the government when the NSA's spying scandal first leaked. However since then, tech companies have been fighting back against government intervention and have been pushing for stricter privacy laws.

It was 27 years ago when a group of researchers at a Beijing computer lab sent the first email from China. The email, which was sent to a university in Germany, included the message: "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner of the world." The Internet Society of China celebrated the anniversary on Sunday, pointing out that China now counts the largest online population in the world with 632 million Internet users.

The Indian government is considering banning the use of consumer email services including Gmail and Yahoo! for official use by its employees. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) for Cabinet is expected to ban these email services by the end of the month in a move to protect secure government data.

British app insight firm Solar Winds have create a web video which takes on the question: What would email etiquette look like if it was acted out in real life? In these humorous scenarios, office workers have email conversations face-to-face taking on the expressions of email styles including all caps and emoticons.

Age and high income do not affect whether or not a consumer will be a loyal customer, according to a new report from email services firm StrongView. In face, loyalty is consistent no matter what age a consumer is, the report revealed. In addition to these findings, the research also conveyed that only 5 percent of consumers that earn $150k in annual salary were loyal to a brand, as compared to 29 percent of shoppers that earn between $25-50k a year. In fact, the study found that 67 percent of loyal customers make $75k or less annually.

Yandex and Mail.Ru, the largest consumer email providers in Russia, both experienced password leaks this week. The data breaches exposed the login and password information of millions of users. The companies have claim that their servers were not exposed and that instead, hackers obtained the user's passwords through phishing scams. The news comes on the heels of news that almost 5 million Gmail account details were stolen by hackers and published on a Russian forum.