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Scheduled Backups for Firestore is now in public preview:
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is now supporting using the new product Firebase App Hosting:
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An error occurred while saving the comment Was there something recently added that makes that easier? 🤔
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An error occurred while saving the comment I didn't know that I needed it until I saw this 😍
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Design work in progress, but no ETA to share at this time.
An error occurred while saving the comment @jamshaid ali, This is a complicated topic with no clear-cut answer.
First of all, I'm not a lawyer, so this is not a legal consultation. We have been in conversations with lawyers and GDPR experts.--
Why is Firebase Auth an issue:
Firebase Auth stores user data in the US. GDPR prevents data transfer of European user data to countries without the same level of data protection.
The EU publishes a list of safe third countries [1], one of them being Israel, the US NOT being one of them.
There have been attempts to make the EU-US data transfer legal (which have been invalidated multiple times by the EU courts) and there are measures you can take to make it safe (encrypt data before uploading to Firebase, anonymize, ...).
However, those measures would make Firebase Auth unusable as you can just use an anonymous/generated email in Firebase Auth or only with great difficulties.--
Specifically to your question, aren't Google Sign-In, etc. an issue, technically yes, but the fact that the user sign-in up for a Google account is NOT the application developers legal issue but Google's.
What you as application developer need to care about is what you do with the data you receive from Google / Apple and if you upload the data to Firebase Auth (meaning transfer the data to the US) it's your legal issue as the application developer.
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I hope that clarifies, why we as Firebase customers need a solution to restrict the data storage and processing to the EU.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Dominic Bartl yes this applies also to Identity Platform!
Identity Platform is like an extension to Firebase Auth (like a Premium tier) and thus the data there is also hosted in the US.
Restoring backups is slow.
For us, restoring the backup took 4.5 hours, which is an insane amount of time if you need to recover from an incident.
I hope before you go GA on this, you invest in some smarter strategies to restore the data.