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Luis Fernando García Muñoz
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03 · Background
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Mexican human-rights lawyer based in Mexico City; co-founder of R3D — Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, the Mexican digital-rights non-profit he established in 2014 as the country's first civil-society organisation dedicated specifically to digital-rights research, litigation, and public advocacy, and led as Executive Director for eleven years until closing his executive cycle on 1 May 2025 in a planned Board-led leadership transition. He continues with R3D in a new role on the Board of Directors.
García holds a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master of Laws in international human-rights law from Lund University in Sweden. His named research, litigation, and advocacy lines over fifteen-plus years at R3D have anchored on privacy and communications surveillance, freedom of expression, facial recognition and discrimination, automated decision-making, and the broader human-rights impacts of artificial intelligence — registered most publicly across R3D's multi-year civil-society response to the deployment of Pegasus mercenary spyware against Mexican journalists and human-rights defenders, the litigation portfolio contesting Mexican federal biometric and facial-recognition infrastructure, and R3D's recent expansion into Inter-American AI-and-human-rights advocacy.
His international civil-society register includes contributor status to the Electronic Frontier Foundation-coordinated Necessary and Proportionate Principles on the application of human rights to communications surveillance and membership in the International Institute of Communications, and he has been a regularly cited public voice on the Mexican Pegasus campaign across The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Al Jazeera, El País, NPR, and Reuters.
04 · Sources
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luisfgarcia.net
Checked 2026-05-17García's own professional profile site — primary source for his self-described role as Co-founder and Executive Director of R3D, his fifteen-plus years of digital-rights research, litigation, advocacy, and communications work, his named expertise areas (privacy and communications surveillance, freedom of expression and media, artificial intelligence and human rights impacts, facial recognition and discrimination, automated decision-making systems), and his current public contact channels (email, Signal handle, LinkedIn)
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r3d.mx
Checked 2026-05-17R3D's 15 April 2025 announcement of the Executive Direction transition — primary source for García's tenure ending 1 May 2025 after eleven-plus years as Executive Director, José "Pepe" Flores's named interim role as Acting Executive Director during the transition, García's continuing role on R3D's Board of Directors after the leadership change, and the Board-led transition process under which Paulina Gutiérrez was subsequently named (cross-corroborated by R3D's "Quiénes somos" page already cited in org-r3d.md)
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r3d.mx
Checked 2026-05-17R3D's archive page collecting García's named contributions to the organisation's public-facing output — corroborates his co-founder status, his eleven-year tenure as Executive Director, and his consolidated public voice across the
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bioeticayderecho.ub.edu
Checked 2026-05-17Universitat de Barcelona Observatori de Bioètica i Dret interview with García — primary secondary source for his Mexican nationality, his law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, his Master of Laws in international human-rights law from Lund University, his co-founding role at R3D in 2014, and his framing of R3D's mission as defending and promoting human rights in the digital environment in Mexico
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accessnow.org
Checked 2026-05-17Access Now's interview with García on the Mexican Pegasus campaign — independent secondary source naming him as Co-founder and Executive Director of R3D and as a public spokesperson for R3D's multi-year civil-society investigation into Pegasus deployment by Mexican state actors against journalists and human-rights defenders
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necessaryandproportionate.org
Checked 2026-05-17Necessary and Proportionate Principles author listing — primary source for García's contributor role to the international Electronic Frontier Foundation-coordinated coalition principles on the application of human rights to communications surveillance, anchoring his named participation in the international civil-society standards-setting field on state surveillance
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iicom.org
Checked 2026-05-17International Institute of Communications member-directory profile — corroborates García's named directorship of R3D and his membership in the IIC, an international communications-policy member network
Source: entities/persons/person-luis-fernando-garcia.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.