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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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data residency

/ˈdeɪtə ˈrɛzɪdənsi/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A map showing where the data lives, drawn before anyone asked the CDN where it caches.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A requirement that data be stored within a specified geographic or jurisdictional boundary.

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See also

cross-border transferA transfer mechanism on file, and a logging endpoint in a region nobody filed.
data discoveryThe tool whose first scan is reclassified internally as an incident.
data sovereigntyA principle observed everywhere except the vendor's support tier, which is global and reads everything.