If you are the copyright owner of any of the content on our Website, or if any of the content on the Website (for example images or videos) infringes upon your privacy, and you wish it to be removed, you should contact the University’s Visual Geometry Group (VGG), Department of Engineering Science at vgg-webmasters@robots.ox.ac.uk.
Due to the methods used to construct the VGG datasets, it is not possible to notify data subjects that content may have been used. The University has a data protection exemption on providing the notice directly to data subjects. This exemption is in Article 14(5)(b) of the UK GDPR which stipulates that:
[where] the provision of such [privacy] information proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort, in particular for processing for […] scientific or historical research purposes […] subject to the safeguards and conditions referred to in Article 89(1) [of the UK GDPR] […] in such cases the controller shall take appropriate measures to protect the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including making the [privacy] information publicly available;
Note that data may be shared internationally.