1. A method of identifying and obscuring faces of specific individuals in an image, comprising: receiving a request for an image for display on a computer display device from a viewing user; determining automatically by a processor one or more individuals represented in the image using an image processing technique; identifying a target individual from the one or more individuals whose facial image is to be obscured when displaying the image based an access control level associated with the viewing user and one or more criteria associated with the target individual; responsive to the identifying, generating a customized image by obscuring a region having the facial image of the target individual from the image; and transmitting the customized image for display.