Maria Paz Canales
Head of Policy and Advocacy
mariapaz@gp-digital.org
Maria Paz oversees the development of insight and expertise to support GPD’s team and projects. Her particular focus areas are data protection, artificial intelligence, freedom of expression, competition and intellectual property.
Previously, she co-founded and served as Executive Director at Derechos Digitales. She holds a Master’s Degree with specialisation in Law and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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18 Jun 2026
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Away from blanket access bans and toward more thoughtful approaches
A growing number of governments are turning their attention to the risks social media poses to children and adolescents. In the UK, proposals to restrict under-16s’ access to platforms and under-18s’ access to specific features reflect mounting concern over online harms – from exposure to harmful content to…
10 Mar 2026
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The AI Governance Void: How Do We Escape the Unilateral Power Trap?
As the AI policy community returned to business as usual following the India AI Impact Summit two weeks ago, GPD–like many civil society groups– left with a sense of unease. Caught between the tech industry’s growing embrace of the language of “ responsible, transparent, and accountable AI” and…
18 Feb 2026
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Reflections from MAP-AI: From Principles to Action in Global AI Governance
Over the past two days, Global Partners Digital (GPD) had the opportunity to participate in two multistakeholder dialogues convened under the Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) initiative, led by the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and the Centre for Communication…