How do you feel about cameras on housing?

We have several cameras around our house (we were burgled a while ago - so we added the cameras afterwards). We are able to set ‘trigger’ zones within our property boundaries so the cameras only activate the video camera and notify us when someone (human motion) enters the zones. We also set privacy areas for our neighbours. These are blacked-out areas on the camera live views so we can't see anything on any of our neighbours’ properties.

I inherited a ring door bell when I moved into my semi bungalow last year. Recently my neighbours next door were away on holiday and I woke at 3am to what I thought was the sound of my front garden gate opening although my door bell camera hadn’t activated.

I had a look on the camera via my phone to check the noise and it was actually my neighbours arriving home from holiday and the noise was their metal gate opening . I was surprised that my doorbell camera clearly picked up their conversation as they walked up the path to their own their front door.

We have door cameras, but they only show movement near the doors. You can hear and speak through them, but only when you press a button to do so. Ours are set to human height, but will occasionally pick up flapping sheets on the line, swooping bats or (oddly) a cat. We can't see into anyone's gardens, and the speaker facility is only used when someone is delivering something and we are away, so we can ask them to put it somewhere genuinely safe, and not leave it on the doorstep. I wouldn't want my phone to be constantly picking up random conversations anyway.

I wouldn't like a neighbour's camera trained on our house or garden, and would ask them to adjust it if they did.

No I wouldn’t be happy having cameras pointing towards our property.
We have ring doorbell but we have aimed it so that it only covers half the drive & not people walking past the on the pavement.
The other thing is they pick up conversations, much to my friends horror. She made a comment about her daughter’s boyfriend being short, he’s quite touchy about it. The daughter is away abroad & they have heard every word, as they have sent a text back saying so 😳

A few years back, a neighbour across the street from us put up a camera which was pointed directly at our house. We complained to the police - he claimed it was just to protect his car, but they looked at it and it wasn't pointed at the car, but at our house, so he was made to take it down.

Is it a wildlife camera? Our neighbours have one.

Otherwise, I would not feel happy or at all comfortable about it.

Came to give the same advice as above. You are entitled to privacy. Please follow that link.

Read the ICO’s comprehensive guidance on this:

ico.org.uk/for-the-public/home-cctv-systems/

Where possible owners should position their cameras to only capture their own property. However, if this isn’t possible and the CCTV captures someone else's property, a public area or communal space, then data protection law applies. This is because CCTV can capture images and voices of other people, and this counts as their personal information.

Try to solve this informally of you can but if your neighbours fail to comply, there’s a formal template letter you can use.

Obviously, make sure the position of your own camera is compliant.