Artist/author Sheila Heti is debuting a play that was inspired by her mobile phone's auto correct feature in her email app this month in New York. The play is called All Our Happy Days Are Stupid and is based on a short story that appears as though it was written by autocorrect. "They are the most popular flesh light videos, and I will be back in a minute," reads some of the text.

PwnedList.com, an online database of hacked email accounts, has 857 million email addresses and more than 1.5 billion passwords on the site as of this week. The site shows consumers if their email address has been hacked and is circulating on a list of stolen accounts and passwords. The list has grown significantly since 2011, when it only had 378,692,047 compromised accounts.

Representatives Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) introduced the Email Privacy Act to the House on Wednesday with the support of 223 co-sponsors. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) will introduce a similar bill in the Senate. The bill is picking up more momentum than it has in the past. The privacy bill would update a 1986 law that allows law enforcement to read the emails of consumers without a warrant, so long as the email is more than 180 days old.

In response to a number of database hacks at big brands, insurance companies have begun selling cyber insurance policies. These policies protect businesses from liability in the case of a digital attack. Financial services firms, telecommunications companies and pharmaceutical firms have been the industries most likely to adopt these policies.

Microsoft recently rebranded its Outlook app for iOS and Android to incorporate new features since the Redmond-based giant acquired email startup Acompli. The app has been so popular that it soared above the official Gmail app from Google in iTunes. In addition, the Outlook refresh has landed on the top 15 free apps in the US iTunes App Store.

Adobe Systems has upgraded the Adobe Marketing Cloud Suite to incorporate location data into emails opened on mobile devices. This would allow a retailer to optimize a message based on where a consumer is when they open an email on their phones. For example, a coffee shop can share the weather and promote locations near where a consumer is when they open an email using location data.

Amazon's new email platform WorkMail is not likely to affect email marketers just yet. Insiders expect that the solution will be adopted by small-to-medium sized companies for workplace email. According to Epsilon, 85-90 percent of people on a typical B2B email list prefer to get marketing messages sent to their personal addresses, so marketers don't need to be too worried about it yet.

Hackers have attacked at least 88 percent of brokerages and 74 percent of financial advisers, according to the SEC, and the majority of these attacks involve spam emails. In a recent revelation, the SEC unveiled how an adviser lost $75,000 to a spam email.

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht used Gmail to communicate with his team, according to details disclosed in his trial this week. The founder of the black market site for drugs and other illicit items posted online that he was looking for an "IT pro" to serve the site and gave his Gmail address as a point of contact.

Law enforcement agencies in Australia will not have access to digital consumer data from international companies under the new mandatory data-retention legislation. This includes data from companies such as: Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. The legislation, which is currently in front of the country's Congress, will also force Australian telecommunications companies to keep customer data for a minimum of two years.