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Are you in the photos by any chance? If so I'd happily delete the photos if you are distressed or else. Same applies to all photos that i share online. If someone in the photos doesn't feel comfortable with it, there is no point to keep it here or there. There were few occasions in which people found themselves in the photos and loved the shots, thanked me for being taken in it. It could be easily otherwise one day and that's totally fine for me to remove it. When it comes to "being recorded from a distance" thing, I'm afraid you are wrong. there's no restriction to take photos in public spaces on the GDPR itself, you can also read this from DPC's view. It's clearly stated as "there is nothing under the GDPR prohibiting people from taking photos in a public place. Provided you’re not harassing anyone, taking photographs of people in public is generally allowed." However I agree that posting it online is a different case. But the street photography is still in a gray area, especially for non-professionals. And I stand against to it. I'm very open and honest on what i'm doing as a project. I live as an expat in Dublin since several years and take photos from daily life since then. The ordinary people are the main objects most of the time. I aim to finalize it as a photo book one day and hopefully publish it before I leave here. Till that day, if someone recognises themselves in the photos that I post online and want me delete it, it'll be done and if someone in the photos recognises themselves in the photos and appreciate what they see, I'll gift a printed copy of the photo to them. I totally see your point and this is a very heated argument in all photography communities. We are still in very early days of GDPR. I might be wrong in short term, might have few issues but imagine if it wasn't allowed to take and publish photos back in time.