Protect for BigQuery

To protect your BigQuery data, Protect uses Google's policy tags to create tags and assign the tags to the BigQuery columns. These tags control who can access the tagged data. Only the Protect groups specified in your data protection standards and data access rules can access the tagged BigQuery columns.

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Note

When creating a Generic JDBC connection from your Edge site to Google BigQuery as part of the setup, set the value of the Other property to SupportNativeDataType=True.
While you can set masking policies on partitioned or clustered columns, you can't query those columns afterward in BigQuery. That is, if a standard or rule is applied to a partitioned table and you try to query that table in BigQuery, an error occurs. Therefore, avoid querying partitioned or clustered tables having masking policies in Protect.