INTELLIGENTLY CAPTURING DIGITAL IMAGES BASED ON USER PREFERENCES

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving image data provided by an image sensor, identifying, based on a facial recognition algorithm applied to the image data, a first face in the image data, identifying a plurality of rules applicable to capturing images based on the image data, and upon determining that a first rule of the plurality of rules restricts depiction of the first face in an image: performing a predefined operation to restrict depiction of the first face in the image data provided by the image sensor, and subsequent to performing the predefined operation to the image data, generating an image for output based on the image data, wherein the generated image does not depict the first face.