Firebase Authentication for EU
Currently, Firebase Auth is US only. Because the EU-US-Privacy-Shield is not valid anymore, transferring data to the US is for EU companies not allowed. Therefore, Firebase is not GDPR complaint. Allowing us to choose the storage location (like you can weigh Firestore or Cloud Storage) to use a data center in the EU (like europe-west1, europe-west3 or europe-west4, etc.) would make Firebase much more GDPR complaint (beside the Cloud-Act).
Nils Reichardt
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We are nearly ready to accept developers who are interested in custom authentication (external identity provider). Please fill out https://forms.gle/pLLYMFhGcrziqT1N8 and we can notify you if you're selected to join the private preview.
Please note that full regionalization for Firebase Authentication is separate, and is still expected to reach preview in Q4 this year.
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Valentin Gensthaler commented
Totally agree, would make things a lot easier in the EU.
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Rebar commented
We cannot use it in Germany until this is fixed!!! Please help!
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Dennis Kugelmann commented
@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. -
José Guerra commented
Critical for any company with business in the EU
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Dominic Bartl commented
Does this also affect the Identity Platform? I haven't found any info where the data of this service is stored.