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7 October 2026

Okay, But Actually… Data Residency Is Not the Same as Data Protection

People love throwing California, Europe and Brazil into conversations about custom software before asking what the application actually does. Here is what data residency tells you, what it does not, and why buying SaaS does not make the legal questions disappear.

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