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:
“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)
“Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)