Google education suite- set location

[kidpressingbuttons]

We are looking at using the free google edu stuff. We are all set up and have been given the free license.

 

However I need to ensure our data is stored only in the uk for obvious reasons. Is there a way I can specify this?

 

Support have exactly been helpful only telling me that data will be secure...

[Arthur]

Is there a way I can specify this?

Only with G Suite Enterprise for Education.

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/198426-google-release-load-updates-choose-regions-where-your-data-stored.html#post1695661

[kidpressingbuttons]

So I guess we wont be able to use gsuite for email storage ect?

[Arthur]

So I guess we won't be able to use G Suite for email storage etc.?

Google is compliant with the appropriate directives, regulations and frameworks. More details here...

 

https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance

 

 

Quite a lot of UK government departments such as HMRC and the Cabinet Office store data in G Suite, so I would have thought it would be fine for schools.

 

HMRC ditches Microsoft for Google, sends data offshore

 

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is the first major department to move to Google Apps, part of an apparent loosening of Microsoft's stranglehold on the government's software services.

 

The department will join the Cabinet Office and Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in deploying the fluffy white stuff.

 

HMRC has 70,000 staff, and as such will be Whitehall's first mass deployment of Google's cloud services.

 

The Cabinet Office currently has 2,500 users on Gmail. The government said in March that Google Apps best met its user needs for the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Fun (DCMS).

 

"Other solutions (e.g Microsoft 365) also scored highly, but the advanced collaboration and flexible working features of Google Apps were the best fit for our needs," it said at the time.

 

David Fitton, head of public sector sales for Google UK, wrote on Linkedin:

 

"The acceptance by HMRC that they can store OFFICIAL information offshore in Google data-centres represents a major change and endorsement of Google's approach to managing sensitive information."

 

See also:

 

• DfE Guidance: Cloud software services: how schools should protect data
   
  
  • Google's Checklist: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3f6ReLrNvlgV0NES2VCazQtOVk/view
    

   

  [*]G Suite & GDPR - New Data Processing Agreement from Google

   

   

  [*]EU data protection authorities confirm compliance of Google Cloud commitments for international data flows

   

  Today we're pleased to announce that the European Union’s Data Protection Authorities have confirmed that Google Cloud services’ contractual commitments fully meet the requirements to legally frame transfers of data from the EU to the rest of the world, in accordance with EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

   

  The authorities have concluded that Google’s agreements for international transfers of data for G Suite and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are in line with the European Commission’s “model contract clauses” and should therefore not be considered "ad hoc" clauses. In practice, this compliance finding will enable our customers in most EU countries to rely on Google Cloud model contract clauses for the international transfer of data without further authorizations, and will simplify the processing of national authorizations in other countries, where required. It will also help to facilitate our customers’ data protection risk assessments.

[Ditto]

What's driving your need to have the data only in the UK?