President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign sent an email Thursday, complaining that his approval is better than Barack Obama’s at the same point in their presidencies. The Washington Examiner writes that this is “supported by some polling, but dubious in aggregate.” 

Yahoo has asked the Supreme Court to shield a person’s emails after death. The company is urging the court to overthrow a Massachusetts court decision that said Yahoo must reveal the contents of a deceased person’s emails to family members. 

The European Commission (EC) is not impressed with a 12-point proposal by ICANN, a U.S.-based organization, to resolve the conflict between the domain name system’s Whosis service and the GDPR. "Given the level of abstraction of the models, it is difficult to assess the scope and impacts of the proposed approaches," wrote Roberto Viola, director-general of technology and communications for the EC. 

Swisscom, a Switzerland-based firm, reported that its customer data systems were breached in late 2017, exposing information on around 800,000 customers. While the data included addresses, dates of birth and telephone numbers, there is no evidence that financial information was compromised, the firm says.

Yahoo Mail is offering a desktop and mobile app that will allow visitors to keep up with events at the 2018 Winter Olympics. It features a medal counter that appears in the upper right section of the inbox.  

Salesforce, a cloud computing and customer relations firm (that also offers email services), will invest $2.5 billion in its Canadian business over the next five years. It will increase its headcount and real estate footprint in Canada.  

The showdown between Microsoft and U.S. prosecutors about turning over data hosted in Ireland will soon be heard by the Supreme Court, and it is drawing intense interest around the world. It concerns “a conundrum of the modern age,” McClatchy writes. “Where does data in ‘the cloud’ actually reside and what sovereign entity should have control?”

Burlington, Vermont mayoral candidate Carina Driscoll has seen a rise in her fundraising, thanks to an email blast from Our Revolution, a group founded by her stepfather, Senator Bernie Sanders. That organization asked supporters to send $5 to the Driscoll campaign. 

Mobile email conversation rates now match those of desktop computers, according to a study by Yes Lifecycle Marketing. Both platforms produce order-per-click rates of 3.3%. 

Deleting a person from a database takes more than removing them from an email list. Here’s how fashion brand Oasis is dealing with that GDPR challenge — and others.