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How do you feel about cameras on housing?

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JaneJudge Sun 17-May-26 10:30:29

I have a doorbell with a camera (not ring) so I'm not completely innocent in all this but my neighbours at the back have a camera on their garage which I'm pretty sure can see into our lounge, so I close the curtains if we are sitting in there in an evening...

but now my next door neighbours have installed cameras at the back which they can obviously listen through as they are talking to one another through them whilst one is in the house and the other is in the back garden. Presumably they can listen to me and my family talking too?

I actually feel a bit violated, as though my privacy isn't being respected and I don't know if I am being unreasonable. Obviously I am quite boring so they wont be watching or listening to me anyway... who knows

I'm growing a tree in front of the garage camera

Graphite Sun 17-May-26 10:45:29

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.

BlessedArt Sun 17-May-26 11:20:09

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

Allira Sun 17-May-26 11:21:38

Is it a wildlife camera? Our neighbours have one.

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

ViceVersa Sun 17-May-26 11:31:11

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.

MT62 Sun 17-May-26 12:25:08

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 😳