Mishi in the Press

Mishi is a frequent contributor to leading media titles in India and the US, including TV channels, newspapers, magazines and online news portals. Her Op-Eds have been published in The Times of India, the world’s largest English daily, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Economic Times, among other prestigious media titles. She has also been frequently interviewed or quoted in stories by various media titles.

Op-eds

Below is a partial list of Op-Eds authored or co-authored by Mishi.

• The social media crisis: Why Facebook and other “platforms” must be made liable for their content, The Times of India, August 26, 2020
• Peril of face recognition tech: Facing the end of freedom, one face at a time. Supreme Court must intervene, The Times of India, June 29, 2020
• Aarogya Setu: Building a Wooden Bridge Won't Take Us to a Safer Future, The Wire, May 6, 2020
• Protect right to privacy: Petition to make social media traceable strips the privacy right of all meaning, The Times of India, January 24, 2020
• Big tech, big government: Courts having a hard time balancing privacy with traceability, but don’t forget individual rights, The Times of India, October 16, 2019
• TRANSPARENT ALGORITHMS WON’T SOLVE THE ‘AI BIAS PROBLEM’, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW DATA IS USED, Firstpost, December 10, 2018
• How to game elections, The Times of India, November 29, 2018
• AADHAAR VERDICT: A LABYRINTH THAT RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER, Firstpost, October 5, 2018
• Aadhaar: Where Do We Go from Here?, The Quint, October 2, 2018
• With Conceptual Issues Still, India’s Data Protection Bill Should Not be Rushed Through, The Wire, August 25, 2018
• The What, Why and How of the GPL, Opensource, August 1, 2018
• ASSERTING CONTROL OVER DATA BY ENFORCING DATA LOCALISATION POLICIES IS WRONG, Tech 2, June 14, 2018
• Globalise identity, not aadhaar, Times Of India, May 31, 2018
• Viewpoint: The pitfalls of India's biometric ID scheme, BBC News, April 22, 2018
• Convenience vs freedom, Times Of India, March 23, 2018
• Silicon logic stumps users, Deccan Chronicle, March 12, 2018
• Protecting people rather than data with Data Protection, ET Tech, January 29, 2018
• TRAI and fail: By decreeing net neutrality, India’s regulator has trumped America’s FCC for an open internet, Times Of India, December 5, 2017
• Right to privacy is fundamental right: ‘Reasonable restrictions’ remain as Supreme Court delivers historic judgment, Firstpost, November 3, 2017
• Why a pro-privacy approach is crucial to Digital India, VCCircle, July 31, 2017
• Shaky Foundation: Will Aadhaar stay or be stayed?, ET Tech, May 9, 2017
• Protect citizens’ freedom: SC should not allow Aadhaar to eliminate constitutional right of privacy, Times Of India, April 11, 2017
• Cost of Internet shutdowns, The Hindu, March 7, 2017

Interviews

Below is a partial list of media interviews featuring Mishi Choudhary.

• "If James Bond Gets Backdoor Entry To Encrypted Data, What About Ransomware Attackers?", CyFy2020, October 2020
• 'Transparency and respect for privacy are essential … to build trust which is totally absent from Aarogya Setu process', Times of India, May 11, 2020
• The Ugly Side of Social Media, Newsclick.in, July 9, 2018
• “We look for commitment to the cause of freedom, mission of the organization, honesty and the desire to bring about a change in the world”, says Mishi Choudhary, President and Executive Director, SFLC.in”, IIMjobs, August 8, 2017
• CYBERBULLYING IN INDIA IS A FORM OF CENSORSHIP: MISHI CHOUDHARY, FirstPost.com, December 23, 2016
• Putting all Aadhaar data in one big box is ill-advised: Mishi Choudhary, Business Standard, October 2, 2016
• Mishi Choudhary, on the three legged stool: Law, Tech & Policy, BarandBench.com, September 12, 2016
• NL Interview with Mishi Choudhary & Eben Moglen, Newslaundry.com, August 25, 2015 (on YouTube)

Talks & Panels

• "Whose Data Is It Anyway", panel with Sunjoy Joshi, Dhruva Jaishankar and Jean Yves Art at Our Tech Futures, September 21, 2019
• "Internet Shutdowns: why bother when you can just kill it?", re:publica, May 9, 2017
• "What Happened to the Internet? ¯\(ツ)/¯", MozFest, October 2017
• "Q&A on Kernel Compliance" with Greg Kroah-Hartman and Ted Ts’o during SFLC's Annual Fall Conference, October 28, 2016 (also on YouTube)
• "The last kilometer, the last chance", re:publica opening keynote with Eben Moglen, May 2, 2016