Maria works with the Tactical Technology Collective on privacy and digital security projects, and occasionally facilitates digital security workshops for researchers, journalists and human rights activists. She also works with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) on the collection of network measurements with the aim of detecting online censorship and traffic manipulation around the world. In her spare time, Maria maintains Surveillance Without Borders, a resource she created to illustrate how surveillance is carried out around the world based on the Snowden revelations.

Previously, Maria worked in India with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) where she created the India Privacy Monitor project, carried out legal and investigatory research on India’s surveillance industry and co-organized multiple round-table meetings across India for the discussion of draft privacy legislation. Before that, she volunteered with Privacy International, interned with the Parliament of Greece and acquired a MSc in Security Studies from the University College London (UCL).