Wednesday night the Senate is holding a hearing on email privacy, the first concrete step to reform the law that dictates email privacy. Officials from the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission will testify at the hearing which will update the 1986 law which currently states that law enforcement can access email data from people under investigation without a warrant if the emails are older than 180 days.

Vodafone is hot water after allegedly accessing the phone records of a journalist. A leaked email reveals that a Vodafone executive told investigators to "use any means available" to find out who the source of the story was. The company has admitted that it accessed journalist Natalie O'Brien's call and text records in 2011 after she broke the story about a Vodafone data breach.

The FBI and Better Business Bureau are warning consumers to beware a spate of email spam that looks as though it comes from a person the recipient knows. The emails may look like a bill from a lawyer or realtor but are actually coming from scammers. Hackers send these emails after already hacking into the recipient's email account and getting to know who they do business with.

Tutanota, a company that offers email encryptions using end-to-end tools, has revealed that as many as 37 percent of its users take advantage of its end-to-end encryption feature. With at least a third of users taking advantage of the tools, the company says that it proves that end-to-end encryption is not too difficult for consumers to adopt.

The DOJ is relying on an old statute called the Stored Communications Act to fight for its right to subpoena the email data of a Microsoft user which is stored in Ireland. But the tech giant is stressing that if the government wins this position, it could eviscerate personal privacy on a global level.

Email on Acid is hoping to make all emails look the way they are intended to look. The company's extensive test system allows email senders to preview how an e-mail looks on 44 different types of e-mail services, including mobile devices and Outlook 2003. When the platform detects errors in the emails, it will identify what the mailer can do to fix the email including helping emailers avoid any practices that will land them in the spam box.

According to the State Department's initial review of Hillary Clinton's email server, she did not send a single work email through her personal account for about about four months during her role as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The department has identified these gaps in which Clinton did not send or receive a single email on the personal account. One such gap is the first month and a half after she was sworn in in 2009.

The Lodging, Travel Agencies and Services industry sees an average 56.7 percent email open rate, the highest across 17 industries measured in a new report from email marketing services firm Silverpop. The report also revealed that Consumer Products; Hospitals, Healthcare and Biotech; Insurance; and, Schools and Education all saw average open rates of 50 percent or higher.

More than 90 percent of U.S. white collar adults check their personal email at work, according to a recent study from Adobe Systems. The research also revealed that these workers spend 6.3 hours a day checking email: about half of this time is spent checking work email and the other half is spent checking personal email.

CVS has revealed that its photo website was hacked this past July and that some customer data has been exposed. The photo sites of Rite Aid, Costco and Wal-Mart Canada were also hit in the same attack. The company has yet to email customers details about the breach but did put a note on its website recognizing the exposure. The company is working with outside security experts to determine what data was exposed.