The photo marked the beginning of Niesen's project Save Family Photos, an online archive devoted to gathering images and stories from people around the world.
Even in a city with less comprehensive surveillance, the police could systematize the process for gathering images and configure a searchable database.
It mainly shows Darger, whose work centered on the travails of the fictional Vivian Girls, gathering images from printed sources and then experimenting with ways of using them.
Only last month, the company agreed to cough up $7m to settle a multi-state US investigation into the interception of private information as its Google Maps vehicles drove around gathering images for its Street View service.
Since, then, the discovery team has spent more than a week quietly gathering images of the vessel and comparing them with the Terror's 19th century builders' plans, which match key elements of the sunken vessel.
Specializing in gritty images and urban tableaus around the world, Mr. Grey has published two collections of photography, "Pictures I Had to Take" and "Looking Hard at Unexamined Things," and is in the process of gathering images for a third, scheduled for publication next spring.
We called this "mildly creepy" since Google is now gathering images of all of us from space on quite a few different satellites.
As our intention is to avoid gathering images other than upright faces, we decide to represent a face with the simplest model: an ellipsoid.
In May 2010 it was revealed that Google had scooped up about 600 gigabytes of personal data from unsecured wireless networks while gathering images and location data for Street View.
DroneDeploy has been used to help investigators identify shallow graves where criminals may have dumped their murder victims, to fly over plane crash sites gathering images from overhead where human inspectors couldn't safely maneuver, and to gauge the volume of waste in a landfill day by day, among other things, Winn said.
