This high-tech camera may help protect our identities -- here's how it works

Ever scrolled through Instagram and spotted yourself in the background of a friend's photo looking a bit rough? A new AI-designed camera could fix the problem for you before it even happens -- though it's more intended as a solution for surveillance cameras than your pal's smartphone. Digital cameras are everywhere, and they see you a lot, thanks to facial recognition tech, body motion tracking, and medical imaging. These cameras pick up myriad details daily, resulting in massive troves of data and raising serious privacy concerns. To try and streamline what some of these lenses see, a group of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, has created cameras that can be taught to snap images of important objects while simultaneously erasing others from the shot.