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Google wouldn’t guarantee data wouldn’t leave EU for the longest time, and still don’t on some services. They were also extremely slow to adopt EU legislation
by eksemplar 8y ago
Google wouldn’t guarantee data wouldn’t leave EU for the longest time, and still don’t on some services.
They were also extremely slow to adopt EU legislation required, and still haven’t for all services.
Microsoft by contrast did so immediately, with Amazon doing so as well shortly after.
Still, when I ask our DPO which cloud is better, he’ll point to Azure, then AWS and directly advice against using Google.
Which is a shame, because I’d actually like to use firebase and flutter to up our production effectiveness on mobile. As one example.
It’s also why we solely rely on OpenStreetMap instead of using google maps, even though supporting OSM with server infrastructure to do so is more expensive. At least these days, OSM is a great map service, but we also used it when it wasn’t.
- konradb 8y agoHi there! Thanks for the info. I'd like to use Google Cloud in the EU - do you have a recent reference for this? I googled but could only find more generic info about GDPR compliance etc.