California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris is known to the ad tech community for her strong push towards consumer privacy policies in digital. Harris also now joins the group of government officials who have disclosed that they have used a personal email address for work purposes. Harris revealed the news this week, but it's not too big of a deal. She said that she really doesn't use email much at all and when she has used her personal account for work purposes it is for mundane tasks like asking staffers to forward her an article. This usage likely doesn't break …

Emails with three or less images and around 20 lines of text garner the highest click-through rates, according to new research from Constant Contact. The study looked at more than 2.1 million Constant Contact customer emails sent to more than 100 recipients during the course of 13 weeks.

While The White House established an official email archiving policy three months ago, federal agencies do not have such restriction. These organizations are in charge of setting their own policies to decide which emails need to be saved as government records. With the recent concerns around Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of personal email when she ran the State Department, experts believe that a more universal policy could be adopted.

Landlords in michigan may seen be able to evict tenants via email or social media. Lawmakers in the state are considering a bill that would allow landlords to deliver eviction notices digitally. The bill is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday in the state House.

Rossen Dimitrov, a vice president at Qatar Airways, has used email to publicly shame a company employee. The executive sent out a awkward email with a photo of that is allegedly a senior flight attendant passed out drunk. In the email, he criticizes the employee and tells staffers that appearing drunk in Qatar.

Tutanota, a German email encryption service, is coming out of beta next week and will soon be publicly available. The beta version has been available to about 100,000 users using .de email addresses over the past year. On Tuesday, when the service launches in full, the browser-based encryption tool will also be available for .com and .io addresses.

Maura Thomas, a trainer on productivity, attention, and effectiveness, claims that sending emails after hours is bad for employees. In an opinion piece penned for Harvard Business Review, Thomas claims that pushing an always-on culture by constant communication leads to a decrease in productivity and creativity in the workplace.

The State Department has revealed that it only began automatically archiving emails from senior officials earlier this year. The comments come in the light of Hillary Clinton's remarks that any emails she had sent to colleagues at the State Department would reside on the department's servers.

The Department of Justice has filed a new appeal in its case against Microsoft. The DOJ wants to access emails of an alleged drug trafficker, but the data is located in an Irish data center. The DOJ claims that the reason Microsoft assigned the datacenter to the email account was based on "the user's own uncorroborated identification of his or her country of residence at the time the account is created." The DOJ points out that the user was taking advantage of the system. "Microsoft makes no effort, however, to verify the user's country of residence at the time of …

David Wheldon, Barclays Group's managing director of brand, reputation, citizenship and marketing, has been named the new president of The World Federation of Advertisers. In a recent interview with Ad Age, Wheldon said that one of his main initiatives is to "support marketers in their quest to integrate their brands - and the consumer experience - online and offline." He told Ad Age that, "client companies spend too much time navel-gazing when we should be talking about challenges, learning from each others' mistakes and sharing best practices. It's a shame that, in a global world, marketing is not more joined …