Access rights can refer to:
- Access to Information Act, a Canadian act that allows public access to government information
- Disability rights movement, disabled access to public and private locations is a key issue
- Access control, the ability to permit or deny the use of something by someone.
- File system permissions, security control over file access in computer operating systems
- Harvey v. Horan, a U.S. Federal Court case which decided right of access to DNA testing
- Right of public access to the wilderness
Famous quotes containing the words access and/or rights:
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.”
—Steven Levy, U.S. writer. Hackers, ch. 2, “The Hacker Ethic,” pp. 27-33, Anchor Press, Doubleday (1984)
“Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)