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Take a look at this article if you'd like to know how the GDPR impacts street photographers in the EU;
https://petapixel.com/2018/05/30/how-bad-is-gdpr-for-photographers/[/QUOTE]
This was one of the articles that helped confuse me, some European countries (France and Germany) have had laws affecting street photography long before GDPR, and this article is misleading (wrong) about the effects of GDPR.
The other thing worth being aware of that you cannot blanket the effects on "photographers in the EU" as each member state has the opportunity to ada legislation to suit their own country as long as it still complies with the core demands of the EU Directive or Regulation. The amount of flexibility depends on whether its an EU Directive or an EU Regulation, but it means that once the EU legislation is translated into a member states law, there are likely to be differences between different EU countries. And each country still has it's own independent legislation, its only where it is considered important (mainly in terms of trade, to avoid unfair competition between member states) where the EU have tried to have common legal standards across countries.
For the UK, the best source is the one linked to earlier
https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1554/determining-what-is-personal-data.pdf where the example at the top pf page 15 makes it clear that the sort of image you are referring to, would not be considered as "personal data" and therefore falls outside the scope of GDPR. In terms of street photography in the UK, nothing seems to have changed as a result of GDPR.
The text is copied below:
"At New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square two almost identical photographs of the revellers are taken by two separate photographers and stored in electronic form on computer. The first photographer, a photo journalist, takes a picture of the crowd scene to add to his photo library. The second photographer is a police officer taking photos of the crowd scene to identify potential troublemakers. The data in the electronic image taken by the journalist is unlikely to contain personal data about individuals in the crowd as it is not being processed to learn anything about an identifiable individual. However, the photo taken by the police officer may well contain personal data about individuals as the photo is taken for the purpose of recording the actions of individuals who the police would seek to identify, if there is any trouble, so they can take action against them.