2026-04-18 Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
2026-04-18 Adequacy decisions "How the EU determines if a non-EU country has an adequate level of data protection." Which includes a list of the countries recognised so far.
2026-04-18 Transfert.net «Transfert fut, [de 1999] jusqu’en mai 2002, l’un des principaux médias francophones consacrés à l’impact des nouvelles technologies.»
2026-04-18 Romanian orphans In October 1966, Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception and brought in one of the world's harshest anti-abortion laws, leading to a large spike in the number of Romanian infants abandoned to the country's orphanages.
2026-04-18 Folklore — Do It User testing sometimes has surprising results
2026-04-18 Screenshots from developers — 2002 vs. 2015 "In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them."
2026-04-18 Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available.
2026-04-18 Qu'est-ce qu'un riche? | Grise Bouille Chacun aura sans doute sa définition, mais je vous propose la mienne — un riche, c’est quelqu’un qui n’a pas besoin de travailler pour vivre
