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Use of CCTV in Rented Accommodation to Evict Tenants over Non-Contractual Rules

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  • tlc678910
    tlc678910 Posts: 983 Forumite
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    edited 23 November 2015 at 8:59PM
    Guest101 wrote: »
    Rubbish.

    The human rights act would not apply to a communal shared area in a house!

    Really - you can get away with water boarding in there with impunity! And I thought it applied to all citizens at all times - EVEN people that live in shared houses.
  • gazter
    gazter Posts: 931 Forumite
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    tlc678910 wrote: »
    Breaching the Human Rights Act - right to privacy and family life? both the CCTV and the no visitors? Is there a local citizens advice that might have a free law clinic willing to advise?

    The HRA applies to your interaction with the state, not private agreements.
  • tlc678910
    tlc678910 Posts: 983 Forumite
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    gazter wrote: »
    The HRA applies to your interaction with the state, not private agreements.

    Thank you for disagreeing / explaining without being rude. Appreciated
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    tlc678910 wrote: »
    Really - you can get away with water boarding in there with impunity! And I thought it applied to all citizens at all times - EVEN people that live in shared houses.

    Then do some more research. Instead of posting nonsense.

    Btw the HRA is applicable to STATE oppression and so forth.
  • patman99
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    I think I would deal with the cameras by using a camera to take a photo from as close to the camera's position as possible, then print out the phot on matt paper before mounting it on stiff card (to prevent the photo from bending).

    A small frame can then be used to mount the image in front of the camera's lense.

    The camera will focus on the photo and all the ll would see would be the image he was expecting to see - that of an empty room.
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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Having been reading books recently on greenhouse gardening and comments about painting the glass with white paint in summer to ensure they don't get too hot

    - then I guess paint could be easily removed from glass and think I would be painting the camera lens with some white paint and that should block out the intrusion.

    Having said that - some of these CCTV cameras have sound recording facilities and I would also be wondering if that nosy landlord had put some hidden "spying" facilities in the house. Hence I still would refuse pointblank to even consider living somewhere like that (if a house like that really DOES exist). I just wouldn't want to know about being treated like an insect underneath a microscope to be examined - an English persons home is their castle and all that....
  • Dan-Dan
    Dan-Dan Posts: 5,279 Forumite
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    patman99 wrote: »
    I think I would deal with the cameras by using a camera to take a photo from as close to the camera's position as possible, then print out the phot on matt paper before mounting it on stiff card (to prevent the photo from bending).

    A small frame can then be used to mount the image in front of the camera's lense.

    The camera will focus on the photo and all the ll would see would be the image he was expecting to see - that of an empty room.

    Dont think this would work on a domed camera
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  • thesaint
    thesaint Posts: 4,324 Forumite
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    Dan-Dan wrote: »
    Dont think this would work on a domed camera

    Somebody has been watching Mission Impossible.
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  • Gigervamp
    Gigervamp Posts: 6,583 Forumite
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    Vaseline smeared on the cameras? Can be wiped off easily so wouldn't damage it.

    However, I would never live in a house that had cameras spying on me.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    I wondered about Vaseline - but have a suspicion the camera might still pick up shapes of people moving (if not the details).

    I have an idea that Vaseline on the lens of a camera is a way to "blur details" of photos of women who have started to lose their looks ....
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