ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
A development team building a cloud-based HR application stores employee records in an Australian data center, but nightly database backups are replicated to a facility in Singapore where analytics jobs also run. When defining cross-border privacy requirements, which single factor most directly establishes which country's privacy law has jurisdiction over the data?
The citizenship of the employees whose records are contained in the database
The location of the cloud provider's corporate headquarters
The country in which the software vendor is incorporated
The physical location where the data is stored or processed
Jurisdiction in privacy regulations is usually determined by territorial control-whichever nation's soil the data resides on or is actively processed within has the primary legal authority to regulate that data. Because records are stored in Australia and processed in Singapore, those countries' laws apply by virtue of the data's physical location. The citizenship of employees, the software vendor's nationality, or the cloud provider's headquarters do not automatically dictate legal jurisdiction, though they can introduce additional obligations (such as extraterritorial reach in some statutes).
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