Firebase Hosting in Europe?

[Matthias Kühnle]

Hi,

are there any plans to offer a firebase hosting location in Europe? 

Now that the US-EU-Privacy-Shield may be canceled by Trump companies can not store personal data in the US as easily as before. 

I mean there are other benefits like latency as well. But the legal concerns are the most pressing ones. 

cheers,

Matthias

[Michael Bleigh]

Hi Matthias -- Firebase Hosting uses a global CDN, so though our origin servers are US-based you shouldn't see negative latency effects in Europe.

In addition, Firebase Hosting data is all publicly accessible, and generally wouldn't include any personal user data (though I am absolutely not an expert on what types of data do and do not apply to European privacy regulations).

Hope that helps at least a little!

-Michael

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[Ian Waring]

Oh my, this affects everyone (in the UK and EEC) whose data stored on the platform includes information sufficient to personally identify a single individual. Like the app I'm currently developing. Please, please, we need it served this side of the pond, clear of the current presidents executive actions. Trust Google implicitly, just not the regime you currently have in Washington DC.

[Kato Richardson]

Ian,

It sounds like you're a bit confused between the Database and Hosting tools. Hosting is a global CDN and nothing served here is private information, so it's unlikely to fall under any EU regulations (e.g. static images, HTML, and CSS files that you use to create your client-side web pages). The sort of information you store in the Database (e.g. user profiles such as names, birthdays, et al) is much more likely to contain personally identifiable info and apply here.

You can read more about our compliance here and specifically about GCPs cloud compliance here. Everything there applies to Firebase with the exception of the availability of EU data centers. We're central U.S. only for the short term.

☼, Kato

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Ian Waring <ian.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh my, this affects everyone (in the UK and EEC) whose data stored on the platform includes information sufficient to personally identify a single individual. Like the app I'm currently developing. Please, please, we need it served this side of the pond, clear of the current presidents executive actions. Trust Google implicitly, just not the regime you currently have in Washington DC.

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[Ian Waring]

Thank you, Kato. Exactly correct - it's the database rather than the CDN I'm more concerned about. However, the comment about data location stands; those resources will be very useful (and thank you very much indeed for the pointers) as long as the privacy shield agreements remain in place. The fear is more on what would happen if that agreement was to be revoked in Washington at short notice. We live in interesting (cough) times :-)