It’s hard to imagine a workplace or home now without email. Whether we use it to exchange information, schedule events or stay updated on family, friends and the world at large, email has become a ubiquitous part of our everyday existence. 

The first ever email sent over a network -- the beginning of email as we use it today -- was sent 50 years ago, in October 1971 by MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson.

October 21, 2021, is the first Global Encryption Day, established by the Global Encryption Coalition, a group of over 200 organizations founded in 2020 to promote and defend encryption.

The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), https://www.m3aawg.org/, would like to take the occasion of Global Encryption Day:

As a founding member of M3AAWG, J.D. Falk embodied the mission of the group in his quest to make messaging and the internet a better place. In his memory, the group offers the J.D. Falk Award annually. We think J.D. would have been pleased to learn of the 2021 recipients: Coalition Against StalkWare, represented by Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Tara Hairston, executive director of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

The lab describes itself as “an interdisciplinary laboratory…focusing on research and development at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.” Of course, this mission aligns closely with that of M3AAWG.