The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago after the news organization was denied a public records request for emails from the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The complaint claims that 25 email chains that could be related to a Chicago Public Schools contract scandal were not released.

The British government may allow citizens to publicly request emails from government officials, but it's not likely that the requests will go through. Downing Street has adopted a policy of automatically deleting emails that are more than 3 months old.

Google released a feature this week that lets users unsend an email in Gmail, but they weren't the first to do this. America Online had this feature for years. Up until 2012, users could unsend an email in an AOL account so long as the recipient hadn't opened the email.

Former IRS chief Lois Lerner's missing email problem stemmed from a process in which IRS workers routinely erased backup tapes. The crucial emails from 2010-2011 were lost and not retrieved due to this standard procedure of deleting the back up. The process left 422 backup tapes erased.

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, the company that owns Hersheypark, has revealed a potential data breach. The potential rate could have exposed customer data including credit card information. The company discovered the breach after some customers complained about fraudulent charges on their cards after visiting a Hershey property. The company is investigating the issue.

Lawmakers are speculating that the recent data breach on the federal government could have exposed personal data, including email addresses, of as many as 32 million Americans. In light of this massive exposure, lawmakers are calling on President Obama to fire Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, who headed up the agency during the breach. She defended her job, pointing out that she too is a victim of the breach.

Almost 80 percent of email marketers are challenged with growing their subscriber lists, according to a recent report from VentureBeat. The research included feedback from more than 1,000 email marketers of varying sizes. The study also found that only about half of email marketers are satisfied with their current email marketing provider.

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, still has a lot of work to do to make Yahoo a "Guide to the World Wide Web." In a meeting with shareholders this week, one shareholder complained that her teenagers teased her about using a Yahoo Mail address and wanted to know when it would be seen as cool again. Mayer responded that she is working on it by creating new features for the product including the ability to drag photos into emails as well as view the profiles of email senders.

Roundcube.net, a Web mail, calendaring, task management and conferencing tool, has raised more than $80,000 through crowd funding site Indiegogo to take on the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple. The company's platform is already installed on about half a million websites globally, and used by hundreds of millions of users through Open Source. The Swiss firm will use the funding to help further its web mail and collaboration tools and expand its user base.

The British Royal Mail has issued a warning about a spam email in circulation claiming to come from its office. The email has an attachment that contains a virus, which if downloaded, will take over the victim's computer until they pay a ransom.