When you contribute images to Photos of Me, Google may use your images to improve and develop Google products, services, and machine learning technology. This includes technology able to detect and understand photos of bodies and faces, including eye gaze, facial expressions, and face and body features.
As an example, we may use this data to teach a model how to detect where the person is in an image and the location of specific face and body parts (e.g. nose, left shoulder, right shoulder).
Full details of how we use your images are included in the consent in the data collection flow.
Avoiding sensitive and restricted content
Because images may be shown to human reviewers for quality purposes, it’s important that there is no sensitive material in your images. Please do not submit the following:
Images taken in bathrooms, healthcare facilities, and other private areas: Imagery taken in or depicting any bathrooms, locker rooms, childcare facilities, wellness or health-related locations, or other locations where people who normally occupy or use them would be uncomfortable, or any location where photography is restricted or prohibited.
Sensitive identifiable information: Imagery containing information that reveals important or sensitive information about you (e.g. credit card number, social security, ID cards like passports or driver’s licenses).
Offensive or sexual content: Hateful, defamatory, or offensive imagery and imagery depicting nudity, pornography, or sexual acts.
Copyrighted content: Photos containing imagery that you do not own (e.g. copyrighted photos from publications, movies, or websites) or other material restricted by law.
Images of other people: Any person (other than you) who can be individually identified (visually or by other means).
Deletion and export of task data
You can delete your data and revoke your consent for this task at any time by going to My Activity and deleting individual images, or all data in the “Photos of Me” task, by:
- Visiting My Activity (accessible via "My Activity -> Other Activity -> Crowdsource Activity -> Photos of Me”)
- Clicking on the "Delete All" button to delete all data contributed to Photos of Me. You can also delete specific contributions to this task by clicking on the ‘x’ button next to the contributed image.
To export the images you’ve submitted via this task, please email a request to photos-of-me@google.com from the email account you used to complete the “Photos of Me” task. From January 2024, you can do this through Google Takeout. Your original images will remain in Google Photos.