The term digital rights describes the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks. The term is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the right to privacy or freedom of expression, in the context of new digital technologies, especially the Internet. Internet access is recognized as a right by the laws of several countries.
Read more about Digital Rights: Human Rights and The Internet, Countries With Laws Making Internet Access A Right, APC Internet Rights Charter, World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS), Digital Rights Landscape, Internet Bill of Rights, Global Network Initiative, BBC World Service Global Public Opinion Poll, Recommendations of The UN Special Rapporteur, Digital Rights Advocacy Groups
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“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)