Context

A multi-country digital public-services platform stores citizen identity, tax, and benefits records for residents of several jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction requires that protected resident data be stored, processed, replicated, and recovered only inside its national boundary, and the Data Protection Officer needs continuous evidence that operations and recovery stay in-country.

Trigger

A citizen record is created, updated, queried for processing, exported, replicated, or restored.

Acceptance Criteria

• Jurisdiction tagging completeness: 100% of records subject to localization receive a jurisdiction tag before first durable write, and tagging latency is <= 1 s at p95 under 2,000 writes/second per jurisdiction; scope: all create/update APIs and ingestion pipelines for citizen records; source: ingestion traces and schema-validation reports; horizon: rolling 5-minute windows. Assumption: up to 1 second of control-plane delay before first durable write is acceptable in this domain.
• Storage and processing locality: 100% of primary copies, backups, and runtime workloads for localized records remain in approved locations within the assigned country, with placement violations = 0 events; scope: all production datasets, backup sets, services, and scheduled jobs handling localized records; source: storage inventory, backup catalog, workload-placement logs, and compliance scan reports; horizon: daily.
• Cross-border transfer prevention: unauthorized cross-border transfer attempts are blocked within <= 2 s at p95, with false-negative rate = 0% in quarterly control tests of >= 500 transfer scenarios; scope: exports, replication, analytics feeds, and support-access flows involving localized records; source: egress-policy logs, transfer-control test harness, and SIEM events; horizon: quarterly tests and rolling 30-day operations.
• Recovery locality: in quarterly failover exercises, 100% of recovery actions for a localized country restore data only into approved in-country recovery locations, with unauthorized cross-border replica count = 0 per exercise; scope: failover of the primary production location for each localized country; source: disaster-recovery orchestration logs and exercise reports; horizon: each quarterly exercise.
• Failure-path behavior: if approved in-country storage or processing capacity for a country is unavailable for > 60 s, 100% of new writes and exports for that country switch to protective restricted mode within <= 30 s, and compliance plus on-call alerting is emitted within <= 5 min; scope: all localized countries in production; source: control-plane health checks, policy-engine events, and alert logs; horizon: continuous monitoring. Assumption: temporary write/export restriction is preferable to unlawful cross-border placement.

Monitoring Artifact

Localization compliance dashboard combining jurisdiction-placement scans, transfer-control test results, failover exercise reports, and searchable audit-evidence SLIs.