The State Department has not been able to turn up the email archive of a former IT staffer that worked on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server. Agency officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee that they were unable to track down emails from Bryan Pagliano, a former department staffer that set up Clinton's private email server.

Legislators from The European Union have made last minute changes to a consumer data privacy bill that is expected to go into effect early next year. The provision would require teenagers under the age of 16 to get parental permission in order to create an email address or use Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. Current legislation allows kids 13 and older to have digital accounts without parental permission.

Jeb Bush's camp sent out a fundraising email this week asking recipients to donate $25 to his campaign fund. In return, the presidential candidate promises to stop emailing the recipient for the rest of the year as an "early Christmas present."

Emails sent this week threatening both New York and Los Angeles school systems were sent through an email host called Cock.li. The emails, which shut down the entire Los Angeles School District for an entire day, were sent from an email with a pornographic reference in the address. The NYPD has subpoenaed the host of the self-described "meme sewer."

Hawaii's Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers to be aware of unexpected emails from major brands such as Apple, Amazon, or FedEx. The organization wants consumers to know that fake shipping emails are in circulation targeting consumers who may be more open during the holiday gift giving season.

Amazon sent the most emails to new subscribers, pushing out an average of 128 emails to this list in November, according to an Internet Retailer survey. WineChateau.com came in second, sending 102 emails to new subscribers and Hobbytron.com was No. 3 on the list sending 100 emails. LivingSocial sent 90 emails to new subscribers during the month and revealed that the site experienced 31 percent higher sales than forecast for its Cyber Monday email promotion.

The European parliament is expected to pass the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) this week, legislation which will regulate how personal consumer data is stored and used, yet most marketers in the U.S. don't realize that this is going on. In fact, according to a new report from privacy compliance platform TRUSTe only 50 percent of U.S. marketers are even aware of the bill in France, Germany, the U.S., and the U.K.

A man in the UK has been arrested for allegedly hacking into VTech's database and exposing personal data on 6.4 million children and their parents. The exposed parent accounts included names, email addresses, secret questions and answers for passwords, IP addresses, mailing addresses and download histories. The child profiles contained names, genders and birthdates.

Pointing to celebrities like Lena Dunham embracing email newsletters and the availability of newsletters tools available on the market, The Guardian is calling 2015 the year of the email newsletter. Email offers more control than the chaos of social media and a direct connection between writer and reader, argues the newspaper. In fact, newsletter author Charlotte Shane has a book coming out based on a series of email newsletters she wrote.

The Office of Personnel Management has done it again. The agency which exposed the personal data of more than 21 million Americans is now accused of improperly handling the contract award when hiring a company to protect the identities of the first 4 million federal employees that were affected by the breach.