Providing privacy protection in a captured image includes obtaining the captured image and image coordinates associated with one or more target individuals within the captured image. Facial recognition processing is executed against individual faces within the captured image, and one or more target individuals in the captured image are identified from the image coordinates. Representative data of the one or more target individuals is saved to a whitelist, and a privacy protected version of the captured image may be provided. The privacy protected version of the captured image has one or more altered image features associated with one or more other individuals within the captured image then the one or more target individuals.