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 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)

    Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)