Data Residency

Data residency refers to which country or geographic jurisdiction data is physically stored and processed in — where the servers actually are.

Data residency looks like a technical detail at first but is in practice a legal and strategic decision. Where data sits determines which laws govern it, which authority can demand access to it, and whether transferring it across a border is even permitted. For the Iranian market this has two faces: an access face (a service and script served from abroad may fail to load for part of the audience or be blocked) and a compliance face (keeping users' data inside the country removes the cross-border transfer question). Residency should not be conflated with ownership or security; data can be in-country yet poorly protected, or abroad yet encrypted. Residency answers only “where,” not “how secure.”