I was wondering what action I can take with regards to a neighbour who has just recently moved a CCTV camera into his bedroom and is pointing it directly at our front door and two bathroom windows.
We live in a courtyard development (5 houses) and the camera is about 10-15 metres away and clearly visible. He already has an external camera pointing towards his own door which is absolutely of no consequence, but I feel the second camera is in violation of our rights to privacy. We have recently had some flooding issues, although his property was not affected. The emergency services were called and he was seen standing watching everyone and even the fire brigade felt the need to comment. Later that day when council representatives were on site, in front of witnesses he "flew" at my wife and invaded her space and verbally attacked her. What can I do?The main laws surrounding the use of CCTV are contained within the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 but these do not cover domestic residences. It is perfectly legal for a resident to install CCTV (even with recording and playback capabilities) and, in the normal course of events, this will be done to protect one's own property against the threat of intruders and trespassers.
If you're concerned that your neighbour's camera is pointing towards your property or windows, you can quickly check your legal position using our free CCTV and Privacy Checker.
When installed correctly and used for the right purpose, residents who have installed CCTV will tend to have a positive effect on the reduction of crime and anti-social behaviour occurring in the neighbourhood, as would be perpetrators of such actions would be less inclined to commit offences for fear of being caught on camera.
The problem, as you rightly pointed out, lies in the fact that you perceive that one of your neighbours' CCTV cameras is pointing directly at your property and this is a Privacy Issue. As far as the law goes in this regard, it would be covered by the Human Rights Act under your rights to privacy. Article 8 of the Act entitled "The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, Home and Correspondence" means that your neighbour might well be breaking the law here.
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Try our CCTV and Privacy Checker free, here on this site →Ideally, it would be better if you could speak to the neighbours politely, explain the situation to them and request that they make certain modifications to the CCTV system so that it does not infringe on your privacy. However, given you stated that the man verbally attacked your wife, the likelihood would seem to suggest that he would not be prepared to listen. Incidentally, the fact that the man verbally attacked your wife might be also covered under the Human Rights Act in terms of harassment alone. It's also likely that his behaviour will have been mentally noted, at least, by the council representatives so that could obviously go in your favour.
Therefore, I think you have every right to contact your local authority or local police force and have them come out to investigate. They would obviously need to be satisfied that the installation was basically Causing Harassment, perhaps even bordering on voyeurism, and they could then take action. Alternatively, get some advice first from a solicitor who has specialist knowledge in this area.
Common questions
Can my neighbour point a CCTV camera at my house?
A camera that captures your garden, windows or doorway has to comply with data protection law. The ICO treats domestic CCTV that covers other people's property as personal data processing, which gives you rights. The first step is asking your neighbour to reposition it, calmly and ideally in writing.
What law covers neighbour CCTV in the UK?
The UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 apply where domestic cameras film beyond the owner's property. The neighbour needs a clear lawful basis, has to keep footage secure and must respond to a subject access request from you. Persistent refusal can be reported to the ICO.
Can I make my neighbour take their camera down?
Rarely on the first request, but a written ask backed by data protection law often gets the camera repositioned. If the camera is being used to intimidate, the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 may also apply. The council, the police and the ICO each have a role depending on the conduct.
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Our neigbour points their CCTV at our property all the time. According to the manufacture the camera can audio record with noise cancelling up to 30 feet away from the camera with crystal clear audio. It can audio record our conversations in rooms with open windows, so for us, that is more than 2/3rd of our home, both bedrooms, my office, dinning room, hall and porch, including more than half of my
driveway too.
I have been looking into this for a number of weeks now, and the legal remedies that exist is zero. The ICO may or may not send a letter to the property recording you, that will be the most they will do, but in most cases they will do nothing.
The only real cause of action you have is to move house!
The ICO will do nothing for you, they do not act on domestic CCTV complaints, the police will do nothing for you, unless the harrassment involves other things, like damage to property, shouting abuse at you or threatening violent behaviour.
The GDPR are unenforcable, yes they exist, yes data controllers mucst comply to them, but unless you take very expensive legal action, then they exist in name only, but there is no reasonable way of enforcig them with regards to domestic CCTV.
I have tried to get a solicitor to represent me but I have been unable to, they only take on cases involved in business, so there is no legal remedy for you either.
The options you have are put up or install barriers, like a fence, plant a tress or bush, or put climing plants to block the camera. However, nothing will stop the audio recording, so you will have to close your windows when you want to phone your bank, as the audio can record your security details through a open window. In our case audio can be clearly heard up to 30 feet away from the camera which covers the 4 main rooms in our home.
At this point in my investigations, no one will help you to enforce the GDPR for domestic CCTV and audio monitoring on domestic properties.
If you own your property and your neighbour owns their property there is little you can do legally if it looks over at your property
It is only harassment if something else has occured, the fact there is a camera is NOT harassment.
It can only be moved if it breaches local bye laws
Police have no power to move it.
Providing they follow Data protection laws it will be lawfull
WHAT IT CANT DO
It cannot look directly into a bathroom.
If you live in social housing, or tenanted along with your neighbour, you may be able to asked the authority or landlord of the CCTV owners property to step in.
If you are unlucky enough to be in this situation and the CCTV owner refuses to move the camera, unfortunately the reality is you are likely stuck with it.
I have such a neighbour and am trying at all costs to leave and move from the area, as my neighbour has positioned a ring motion camera in such a way that I can neither avoid or blind its scope of view when approaching my own home, and its perfectly legal they can do this. i suspect its also stopping me from selling my house as viewers see it as they approach the home.
Blinding or touching the camera in any way will lead to accusations of criminal damage, there is nothing you can do in some circumstances to mitigate their effects.
Luckily I have a stone wall separating my garden and their accessway, so have several options to blind the camera via a wooden or closely spaced metal bar fence to raise the height. As soon as I have the materials ready to do the work, the time and weather I will built it. No point in talking to people with CCTV, police nor council will do anything. I won't let it go unanswered and neither should you.
Younger members of village market traders economy made petition to village elders, but Grbnoiga did not carings, did not listen and made application to installings more prominent camera, making installings even without permission.
Grbnoiga is badman of extreme murmurings in the village.
"Look", I say to young Tchoborbi, "I must make warnings against younger members of community passing the house of Grbnoiga to avoid capturings of their daily doings, for Grbnoiga films and films in perpetual high fidelity, day and night and sells upmade footages to Serbian trampfighters".
But Tchoborbi takes woodens step ladders and stands upon wooden tyretable making superhigh uplifting device and scrambles upwards towards Grbnoiga's mountainous installation of camera watching equipments.
"Serbian trampfighters will not see me now, plus you owes me smoneys for previous uninstugated webcam promotion scheme, foolish Grbnoiga." Tchoborbi makes screamings into window of Grbnoiga.
Grbnoiga leanings out of tall louvred window at very top level of staggered balcony, reaching with fishhook on metal pole towards Tchoborbi's eyes, screaming,
"Do not tamper, I will blind you! I will blind you!"
Torontomoni Is suddenly below camera footage installation with many rags soaked in petroleum. There are warnings, there have been many warnings and Grbnoiga has not ceased or desisted in filming footages of village youngers to sellings to Serbian trampfighters, so Torontonomi flares with great gushings of sound and flame a small piece of lit tinder beneath such pilings of rag soaked petroleum stuffs.
Tchoborbi leaps with such fervour away from house of Grbnoiga the trampfight fanatic, pulling stepladder and runnings, screaming noises of rats in distressing circumstances.
Two days of burnings melted all evidence of Grbnoiga's camera scam business.
The youngers of village economy market traders guild now walk peacefully where Grbnoiga's two tier house of deceit once stood, Grnoiba having fled owings smonies to Serbian trampfighter head of mafia business.
Tchoborbi now smakes smonies with lemomaids stall business on remainder of unmelted wooden tyre table.
sound in my property.he said he has to think
of his own security but I’m not happy about it and my wife is now paranoid of speaking privately outside in the garden.
I have contacted their house association to complain about this.. NO action has been taken… !
The Director resides abroad, in India, but still watches these footages from where he is and calls staff for interrogation.
The CCTV footage has also been made available to members of public in the past and shared via social media, in which it shows 2 members of staff in a verbal and physical dispute. This caused the involved parties to feel hugely humiliated and embarrassed to return to work. This is breach of Data.
The footage recorded of staff is not safe in the hands of these directors and they are abusing their powers by constantly watching the cctv and then phoning staff asking them to move certain things around or question how many coffees staff have had etc etc. This surely cannot be a feasible way to use the CCTV and goes again basic employee rights. It is being used to threaten staff that if they are caught being slightly relaxed their contracts will be terminated.
Contacting police and ICO to helping to remove the doorbell - but not any not anyone powered to making that.
Please for advice.
Thank you.
https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-guidance-for-people-using-cctv/
I cant put a trellis up to make fence higher..their fence..any ideas ?
Dealing with a person who thinks its acceptable to screw stuff to their fence so the points penetrate well through to our side.
I have a basic right of privacy am I right ?
These neighbours are hateful and have been nasty for a while now.
Help me please.
He has now installed another one in the bushes pointing across the entrance of our car park. This isn’t even covering his property at all.
Now this lady has installed a door bell on her mothers terraced house ...were she can record me in my front garden I feel.like I am living in a gold fish bowl.....this doir bells are great if you have a drive way ....but a night mare when you have a nosy neighbour like I do ! I work.6 days a week and can not enjoy one day in my front or back garden with out being watched or recorded ...
And it's clear to see this woman is getting a kick out of it ..its soooo wrong people should have rights to.privacy in there own home ...
It should be a basic right ..and you shouldnt have to pay solicitors £300 for advice
Cctv
I have a,camera that points straight at my property and side window of my property
I have to keep blinds closed as it's straight through my living room side window
And on my driveway not on hers.
I've called the police but they said it's a,civil matter
It's a,housing association property
Shes saying its a shared drive way
When it's not
There is as a,pathway that leads up to the back of 4 houses back gardens
That breaks the driveway up
Shes saying that's why she can point it at my house as she recording the shared drive
Is so distressing
I have bioplar and ptsd is making my life unbearable.
She has front Cameras as well which doesn't bother me but they are on motion and follow cars people in the street.
It's so intrusive as she won't point the ip cctv camera on her own drive.
It's directly on my property
I have grandchildren.
How can I find out who owns the path
And what is classed as a shared driveway...
The land in the front yard belongs to us, though the upstairs owner has right of way on the footpath leading from the pavement/street to the shared entryway that both apartments use to gain access to each respective flat.
Due to recent criminal activity on our road, I am concerned for the wellbeing of my family and overall security of my property. I have bought a camera that I have paced on the window sill (behind my living room window) - in full view of everyone - that looks outward in the direction of the street and has been angled towards the footpath and shared entryway.
I have placed this camera on motion sensor between certain hours at night. It does not record sounds.
The issue is that my neighbour has claimed that we are 'spying' and are infringing upon rights to privacy. As mentioned, the camera does NOT view the up stair's flat in anyway, but only looks out at the shared entryway and the 'right of way' footpath leading up to it. He as instructed us to remove it immediately.
The intention of this has never been to snoop, but only to act as a security measure and added deterrence.
What are my rights regarding this - do I need to remove the camera?
These cameras film us everytime we are driving in and out of our car park, we have a 7 month old daughter who is also being filmed when we get in and out of the car.
The PTZ follows people that walk past their property and this can obviously zoom in aswell.
The alarming thing is we have a primary school at the end of the road aswell.
What can be done about this matter?
She watched sus go to garden,bins, comk g and going, weve been told she also love links to listen into convos sat
Her sensor always goes off when we get to our front door her door is about 10ft away from ours, she also got her fmaily linked up to watch it and god knows who else,
The neighbour across from her asks for video footage as he got issues with above him, so she could also be sharing
Our kids dont want to go outside to play anymore as they being watched,
Police said she allowed it, as she protecting her proeprty, but surly we have rights if she filming us coming and going at our door, she refuses to remove it,
Apparently you can film any where as long as you have property there including the street you park on of your car is there, not sure that's true,
into next doors property and throw garbage into mine and the cur next door allows the scum to do it he even fired it at my window when I threw it back and even came around to my door she or he even put the rubbish on the hedge like she did with a tile. I've had vermin pelting the brand new windows with eggs that my Father got installed.There was even a big bags of human excrement placed outside my fence. I have also had to put with non stop constant noise at my home that's being going on for years by them next door nearly 24 / 7 also abussive remarks and ridicule from them and the verminous scum outside I have also been physically assaulted and threatened. Even by from him next door an attempt was made of violence. The police and council and environmental depth have been absolutely useless I've been ridiculed by them also and abbussive remarks made against me infact a so called pcso who gave that abuse thought that he had the right to enter my home and even barged past me and then on other occasions gave abussive remarks outside my home and was supported by the rest of them one even said that I couldn't stop him from entering my property even said that he had carte blanche to do whatever he wanted and would never be accountable for doing so. Another from the council she thought exato do so ctly the same way after giving me abussive insults and derogatory haughty replies and also had the support of her obnoxious colleagues just like him and he's so called colleagues and a sgt. They even broke into my home after I was assaulted by some scum and was in the hospital breaking doors that were expensive which Inhad to pay other sharks to fix it. So if I had cctv pointed in the direction of where that verminous scum throw the garbage I wouldn't be in my rights to do so but they're right to carry on doing whatever they want by doing what they are doing.
centre of the cameras field of view has to be on your property - this can flow over in to public areas or neighbors houses. Secondly you can't tell from just looking at a camera on a house what it can see unless you work with them routinely. some cameras have a very narrow field of view and cant actually see a lot. and unless they are spending 4 figures they are only going to be using HD cameras and you cant pick up much detail after 10 meters, a common set up is two cameras at the front of the house on opposite sides covering the front of a house, to the neighbors opposite it may look like the cameras are aimed at there house when in 90% of cases their field of view stops at the road. im not saying you don't get some people who are spying with their cameras but if they been installed professionally they wont be. also PTZ's (the cameras that move) generally they are programmed to move on their own either following a pattern or reacting to movement, - don't assume some one is sitting their following you
Whats the point? There's no reply for anyone to offer help and no indication that you as the website have even contacted these people who are asking questions as surely it would help everyone to see the response. What a waste of time.
I hav a neighbor on the right side of me an he is recording everything I do an the camera is on my car. He hasn't asked me was it okay for him too do this. In this situation he can be asked to remove it.
As it's falls under Human Rights Act under your rights to privacy. Article 8 of the Act entitled “The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, Home and Correspondence
The house as you drive in to the Close where I live as a camera in the bedroom window, with views all over the close and everyone house. is it anything that can be done to make them take the camera down? I feel that they are being nosey and watching what everyone is up to. I mind my niece and nephews and feel they shouldn’t be looking at them.
My neighbour has a camera a 360 outdoor camera. On the side of his porch facing my front door. He can see straight into my front living room window as well as my bedroom upstairs. He is a very eccentric person. He never opens the door and even when he knows he is in the wrong, he doesn’t care. Can’t seem to make him understand that he is either delusional or very entitled. Recently we had another issue for which it is escalating with the law. What are my next steps? Thanks
My neighbor has installed a cctv towards my gate..
And they regularly watching us and putting questions if someone visit my home
Stupid neighbors called us and put question every time that "who was she and who was he?
For what they came?
This type of questions they are putting us and making us irritate
Can i take legal action against the neighbors?
Pls suggest me?
What legal or police actions I can take about it
Anyway she has had it in for my son playing in our street and been CCTV on him is this allowed she could be a wrong n for all we know I thought it had only purpose for there property only as I want it stopped
I dont know why but he thinks it is me that did the burglary.
So he has installed CCTV pointing straight into my garden and onto my side door.
The vehicle that was broken into is at the other side of his house. So I think he is spying on me. He also thinks I'm having an affair with his ugly wife.
And know the laws regards CCTV my problem is a neabour who is intent of causing problems with the last few years being called a pedo from both her and her kids which has spread around , kind of stupid considering I work in schools have security and government vetting and two of my own daughters but as they say mud sticks
Some work around's offered her to see the system where she said no , not interested !
After all what the CCTV see's it records ! No cameras cover her house or garden but intent that they do also the 5yrs of trouble including her family damaging my car's ect main reason another two cameras went up
My system is registered , signage up and police have used my footage whereby last year it was on all the Scottish news when a young lad went missing , now that's someone that has something to hide I can see more looking out a window than looking at the cameras
CCTV is here to protect not to spy , ask to see it , ask if it's registered and within law , get the police involved after all it's recording and no system should point in someone's windows as that is a breach of privacy , also most modern systems have a mask facility where you can blank out areas in view or record when movement
After getting police involved regards the slanderous remarks I am now going to take the woman to court via legal action for slander after many attempts to speak to her regards it failed even police requesting her attend a mutual meeting
We went to the police but all they said was stay away from him and they would pop round to see him about it ( which they didn't). can i go to the police about these cameras as surely he should have got permission by his neighbours first, which i would never have agreed to as its pointing at my car , my driveway and more importantly me and my wife.
if nothing dose get done about these perverts i will just have to remove them myself.
I need help on this from someone and the police would be a nice touch !!!
Meny thanks. KB
We have now just been issued with a notice that Environmental health is visiting to check our multi stove which was reported as smoking. Smokeless fuel and it's took the 8 years to report it.
We've had enough and feel it's time to hit back or just make them look stupid.
Could someone please point us in the right direction for any advice or help on any of these problems.
Kind regards.
Just released for help with unjustified unlawful cctv. harassment is a crimson offence
I now believe it is pure harassment and bullying as it is 4 of them, and toileting a dog endless times a day/night plus barking. I am 71 and quality of life is zero.
I am getting 2 cctv cameras and microphones, to pick up the noise, and possibly view who is causing this harassment out of the 4 of them, for proof to the authorities....do I have rights to do this?
inlaw, has made numerous attempts to vandalise. As he doesn't want it in his garden. The bunker is shown on the deeds, as always being there. He has also threatened my wife, on countless occasions. The PCSO is not aware of the deed layout, and has said my camera, cannot point at my property.! The neighbour is saying it is pointing into his garden. But it isn't. Am I entitled to protect my property and fence?
The neighbours have recently installed a cctv camera which watches us as we use the right of way. They are watching everyone who visits us and us every time we leave the house.
What are my rights regarding this?
I put a camera up inside my house that shows my drive way and cars and the path way and some of the road outside the front of my house none of there property. The reason for this is I'm worried they may vandalise my car etc as I've been complaining to the council and reporting them to the police.
Every time I step out my front door there in the windows watching my every move. I've had enough of being made to feel uncomfortable so I put a 6ft fence between my house and there's (semi detatached) they complained tried to get the council to make me take it down but I have permission so I've been allowed to keep it up.
I've came home tonight and noticed they have a camera in there upstairs bedroom window pointing straight on my drive way and property. So because I've stopped them spying by putting the fence up they have now done this. Is there anything I can do please? Any advise would be brilliant thanks.
1. Had a neighbour- he died, left the house(private owned) to his daughter.
2. She gave it to the council for 4 years- bad tenants 12k worth of damage
3. Shes repaired it and given to an estate agent
4. Estate agent (hunters) has rented it out to what he said was a family- mum dad x2 kids
5. Whoever passed the tenancy has sublet to different people
6. Past year has been hell- noise, running a catering business from 5am (yep they're Nigerians), suspecting a prostititute is in there. Banging of everything into late hours. never open the doors to anyone they are not expecting. Dont sign for deliveries left to the neihbours to do it.
7. Im not sleeping my wifes not sleeping- contacted the estate agent- he isnt bothered.
8. Knocked on the door 3x and emailed estate agent 3x include head office.no reply.
9. Last week knocked on their door at 1130pm. Was told to not knock on the door again and its just the begining of problems! So now i dont feel safe ( im 1 man 3bed terraced house)
10. Now the noise is the same but is now deliberate to annoy me at late hours. so now constantly anxious
11. Emailed the local council- they sent a letter to me, them and the estate agent.
12. Emailed the neighbourhood police- they are coming to visit me at mine.
Please has anyone been through similar or can offer advice. im going through hell. Not sleeping calling in sick a lot now. Dont really feel safe and dont want to leave my house. Got a dummy CCTV as a deterent. Saw them taking pictures of it today. hence the urgency in this email.
My problem is 1. I do not know what this device is. I happened to see a man installing it ( unmarked van) I asked him what it was and all he would tell me was that it was to guard the tank. I cannot ask my neighbour directly as I am in the midst of a noise dispute with him ( me complaining). So how can I tell if it is a camera or something else?
2. If it is a camera, is there anyway I can find out whether (possibly inadvertently) it can see into my room?
3. If it can see into my room is there anything I can do?
I strongly believe the neighbours' action is based on prejudicial views about social tenants. I retire from professional life following chronic illnesses, regarded as disability. I lead a quiet life with my 7 year old child. My family has never been known for anti social behaviour.
I view the neighbours' action as intentionally invasive. I am petrified of having neighbour dispute about this. The neighbours are not reasonable people, prepared to remove their surveillance cameras away from my property. Please advise if what neighbours are doing is legal and how can I counter such flagrant privacy intrusion. Thank you
i have cctv fitted on our property because football game on my street and damage to my wife car by neighbour kids. i made sure my cctv is register and i pay a fee every year.
cctv is a very good thing in a neighbour wood, it made people think twice before they break the law, if one dont have notting to hide, then they wont worry a
bout cctv.
bellmust.
Today the same neighbour has installed 4 CCTV cameras (he does not reside at the property it is tenanted). The two rear cameras are clearly visible from our patio and our garden. I would suggest given their 180 degree capture they are capable of filming my entire rear garden and our coming and goings from our rear access and onto our patio.
This feels somewhat in retaliation to our planning objection. Ultimately this neighbour will now remotely be able to monitor our own activity and coming and goings as well as his tenants.
What would be the best way of tackling this?
it makes you feel like a criminal when you just want to get into your own house. Its a nuisance and now i hear it all day long in my head wether im in work or in bed i hear it what can i do
I too have lived in an ex council flat for years without problems. However 2 yrs ago we had new neighbours who work from home and despite requests to stop the banging of heavy boxes. The problem escalated to using domestic noise to annoy me . Despite contacting the council and hoping for support i was targeted by the rest of the neighbours ( some new residents moved in at the same time and have grouped together. I own my property and i have come to the conclusion there is no prptection for those that follow the law. I am targeted and seen as the problem for not tolerating her behaviour). This couple are on benefits and the council did decide to put recording equipment into my flat but they sent them a letter advising them. The neighbours have placed cameras up and i feel that whatever they do the council accepts. I am being forced out my flat by the majority who dont work and are claiming some benefit or other. The neighbours dont live under her so im really shocked at the conclusions being made. I own my property so i am proactive in raising issues if i was also having my rent paid maybe i wouldn't care either about what is happening on the estate. The council are not bothered about my health, the footage i showed about boxes being delivered has been met with contact the DWP yourself. This has been going on for 2 yrs.
reputation,i told him point blank,that i wasn't going to put up with his nonsense, " BIG MISTAKE ".Two weeks later they held a house warming party,which was a nightmare for my wife and i.I asked them politely to keep the noise down a bit," Politely" ,i was called all the names you can think of.
They started setting smoke alarms off,etc.This behaviour went on until it was so bad,i got the police to stop it, " would've been better with a shotgun"
However,eventually they were told by their Landlord to stop or be evicted.
I was out one Saturdaywhen he took his temper out on my wife,and terrified her,so badly that she would shake when she heard his voice.
They stsrted to knock on our doors,or bang on adjoining wall,to waken us up during the night.
Him and his pal got banned from fishing a local Loch where i was a baliff,
so they decided to force me or frighten me into giving them a permit to fish.
After some arguing and shouting,i stepped forward,and can't remember if i hit him or not,but there was no blood from him,But,when he arrived at the police station to tell them,i was charged with Assault.
Since then it's got progressively worse,my beloved wife,has gone into residential care,and i'm alone in this house which is bought and paid for.
I thought they would think " He's got enough on his plate, "but no,they're not finished yet,this i know,and all this is over fishing.
How can a person be so Petty ?.
My neighbours son (who doesn't live there and is an adult male) has been prosecuted for indecent behaviour towards me however since this has occurred they had installed a cctv camera pointing down at their front door and drive way (I can only assume as an intimidation technique and to be annoyed at his prosecution) , this made me feel extremely uncomfortable as they were the ones who were in the wrong so I felt like why are they putting this up?! After a few months they've took it down but now it has reappeared directly across the street on their relatives house, so that they can aim it towards my house from across the street. I feel it's looking at my house and driveway so they can see as I enter and leave. What can I do that's not going to make the situation worse without having to be involved at all with them as they are horrible people I could not have a conversation with ? Thank you. I worry of ringing the police and getting them to check in case I'm wrong and it makes life harder.
Thanks so much!!
Of course I was glad to help and this seems to have calmed negativity.
I have had problems with abuse from the neighbour directly near me and have checked with police on the legality of cctv with audio for my back garden where the neighbour puts his head over the fence to verbally abuse us. They have advised that this is fine as long as cctv is only covering my garden so I'm waiting on a 6 foot fence to be erected round the edge of my whole garden then will get the cctv up.
I've asked police to inform them that I will be getting audio cctv not to catch them out but to prevent and deter future attacks.
she is a friend/worls with the croydon council and that is like talking to a briackwall.
seems they are behind her installing the cctv.
I am white immigrant and non stop harassment from her and her 30 recruits, 99% jamacian. I am not techno. so I battle and have a small camera on my window sill
they dont care, they break my gate/broke 3 locks and taken my small slar light from fence
and lot more. the man who does this is a boyfriend of one of the "pack" and he does what he wants. AS IS THE RULE HERE . no rules, no idea of LEASEHOLD. now his car has been standing on the DELIVERY section WITH A cam to watch me..NO ONE ELSE just the white lady........
my neighbour has at least 3 cctv cameras and one of them looks across my front door so she sees who goes in and out of the property. The camera also looks onto the public footpath I have checked on the ICO register and there are no cameras registered with them at that address 21/02/2017. She has inadvertently told me she has stored several recordings of me parking my car close to hers! She also complained that I park outside my own house to prevent her from parking there as its where the Camera looks.
In my mind this camera is being used illegally and its an invasion of my family's privacy what should I do ?
My cameras (3) stay, regardless of complaints, they have paid for them selves over and over after catching my neighbours father setting up a £100K fraudulent claim in our garden.....there's not a magistrate in the land that wouldn't see it my way.
I've reported this to authorities only to be viewed as someone who is afraid to live in my own home alone. I have a brinks system I don't use....that's how fearful I am. What can I do to prove this?
I advised my mother to contact CA first thing Monday morning or should she ring the council first also should contact a solicitor too?
any help/advice asap I can give when I see her tomorrow would be gratefully accepted
• any part of the camera would be less than 250 centimetres above ground when installed, altered or replaced;
• any part of a camera would be less than ten metres from any part of another camera on the same building;
• where there would be more than four cameras on the same side of the building;
• where there would be more a total of more than sixteen cameras on the same building.
If any of these are true then you can contact your local planning department.
I lived on a shared property. I live in the upstairs flat and my neighbours live on the ground floor below us. Now we have different front entrance to the property, but the path to the back garden is shared. I noticed that the neighbours have put up 3 CCTVs on the property. one on their side at the front , one over their door which is the path to my garden. they have also put CCTV in their back garden, which I have to cross before reaching to my back garden. I am very troubled by this and I feel that my privacy is be violated.
I've recently had criminal damage done to my car which the culperate can be identified but because of the way that the CCTV is installed the police have said to me its not valid evidence as I'm looking at other people and breaching their privacy!
It will cost me £300 to have the damage put right. How do I stand thanks Keith
Im staying in a council flat my vehicle and my wifes vehicle was broken into alot of times scratches on our vehicles was done many times
At the washing lines many times our clothing was stollen from the line
I then installed 3 cctv cameras outside 2 facing the parking entrance and 1 cctv camera to the washing lines
If the CCTV films any part of a public road, or someone else's property, then the they are subject to the Data Protection Act 1998. There was a case last year which states that the householder exemption does not apply if the CCTV covers areas that do not belong to the owner.
CCTV does not require planning permission if there is one camera (see GPDO) if it is for security purposes.
Human rights act only applies to a public body
Buy a lazer pen and some kids pastercine ( both will be less than a few quid) point the lazer beam at the camera and use the plastercine to make a prop to hold it in position. I will guarentee it will get relositioned.
Thanks.
Do I have reason for complaint.
Many thanks,
Makdav
There would be my evidence. Now he's at his Computer ...going from camera to camera, set on high. I bought one camera for my third floor window which stops him from aiming. There, a camera finds a camera. Since he's stayed off that area but still has it aimed on my 2nd floor kitchen. He knows o caught him so he does everything he can to harrass me. Police don't. Help, you need evidence! I lIVE to expose his sick habit.
Please let me know that whether installing camera as above is legal or not ?
As it covers main door of neighbor, shall I continue or remove the camera?
thats what i think people should do
I need to know asap if there is a legal distance required inbetween two cctv cameras , i heard it was 10 metres but not sure.
and also , my neighbour is right now putting a camera up beside my back garden which will more than likely have sound, is this a breach of privacy?
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