Digital rights
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The term digital rights describes the permissions of individuals legitimately to perform actions involving the use of a computer, any electronic device, or a communications network. The term is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the right to privacy or freedom of expression (see freedom of information), in the context of new digital technologies, especially the Internet.
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Digital rights advocacy groups
- Free Software Foundation
- Digital Rights Ireland
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- European Digital Rights
- Open Rights Group
- IT-Political Association of Denmark
- Entertainment Consumers Association
- ZA-FREE
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See also
- Information ethics
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Digital rights management (DRM)
- Directorate-General for Information Society and Media (European Commission)
- Electronic civil disobedience
- European Round Table of Industrialists
- Information privacy
- Internet privacy
- Internet censorship
- Network neutrality
- Right to Internet access
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