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 nature of women’s oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)