Access Rights

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 last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes—McCarthy and Stalin—that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)