Systems and methods for implementing selective vision for a camera or optical sensor

A system and method for implementing selective vision for a sensor, the method comprising: storing digital representations of one or more faces in a memory; receiving a selection of a level of privacy from among two or more levels of privacy related to a first face of the one or more faces; receiving a stream of video of an environment; identifying at least one face within the stream of video; comparing the at least one face with the digital representations of the one or more faces in the memory; identifying the first face from among the one or more faces; and substituting the first face within the video stream with a substitute graphical element.