Human rights and encryption
Human rights
### Human rights

Human rights are [moral](/wiki/Morality "Morality") principles or [norms](/wiki/Norm_%28social%29 "Norm (social)") for human behaviour that are regularly protected as [legal rights](/wiki/Legal_rights "Legal rights") in national and [international law](/wiki/International_law "International law").James Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, [Human Rights](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/). Retrieved August 14, 2014 They are commonly understood as inalienable,The United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, [What are human rights?](http://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/pages/whatarehumanrights.aspx). Retrieved August 14, 2014 fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because they are a human being". Those rights are "inherent in all human beings"Burns H. Weston, March 20, 2014, Encyclopædia Britannica, [human rights](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/275840/human-rights). Retrieved August 14, 2014 regardless of their nationality, location, language, religion, ethnic origin, or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time and are [universal](/wiki/Universality_%28philosophy%29 "Universality (philosophy)") and [egalitarian](/wiki/Egalitarianism "Egalitarianism").


Do human rights apply only to individuals, or also to groups?