neighbours cctv facing towards backgarden

Living_proof

PasturesNew wrote: »

Thing is ... if you wander into the garden in your pants ... lift a leg, f4rt ... burp... then slouch back indoors... if they were watching from the window it's "their story" ... if it's on video it's on YouTube.

But would anyone be remotely interested even then? My back garden is partially overlooked by about six houses but I am sure they all have something better to do than to worry about what I am doing. The business about other's privacy does concern me a little as I am going to get CCTV installed due to the frequent low level crime in the neighbourhood. One side of my house only has a shower room tiny window on an upper floor so I will need to have a wired camera covering the side access to my back garden. This will overlook the drives of two adjacent houses but I can't believe they wouldn't prefer their drives, and cars, etc. to be covered in the circumstances. After all it's only when something happens that the CCTV is scrutinised. We are all on some camera or another particularly in town and in shops, but does it bother you?

LawAbiding

I live in a terraced house on a main road with a tiny front yard (more like a concrete porch).

My cameras covers the whole block of houses and everyone's front doors opposite and my side.

I have helped the police on 4 occasions on incidents with vehicles making off down our road.

Neighbours don't mind as it covers all there cars which often get damaged by cars driving by.

OP, your issue is fact you don't get on with your neighbor, but you have every right to ask what the camera covers and if it covers you.

You may be overthinking it by not asking, but you never know your neighbour maybe more then happy to sure you if you were to ask

Wassa123

Ozzuk wrote: »

Technically if it is recording public areas then the onus is on you to make sure you are GDPR/DPA compliant. I've never heard of anyone being challenged on it, but private CCTV is no longer exempt from this (changed a few years ago).

As long as theres a reason for the area to be record and it is clear who owns the CCTV camera you're fine. They can request footage of themselves, but as mine was set up to catch/prevent yobs causing asbo and criminal damage, I doubt they'd want to supply me with their identification documents, a description of what they were doing, and an address to receive the results. I'm also prevented from giving out footage if another person is in the frame. Most home CCTV systems will have overwritten the footage within the required response time anyway. So all of them together, it's actually quite hard to obtain CCTV of yourself.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Thing is ... if you wander into the garden in your pants ... lift a leg, f4rt ... burp... then slouch back indoors... if they were watching from the window it's "their story" ... if it's on video it's on YouTube.

If they put it on youtube then they are just providing the evidence for all sorts of offences!

Alan2020

Coldste wrote: »

So my neighbor is really weird they’ve got electric gates and two CCTV cameras on their front drive. Not a problem but it’s their CCTV camera in the back garden that’s the problem. It’s facing his back doors and windows but because it’s placed high up and that’s where the problem is.

We’re not sure if it’s picking up in our garden or not, we don’t like each other, we say hello if we see each other but if we can avoid each other we can, there doesn’t seem any point in asking if it does because I don’t think they’re going to admit if it is picking up in our garden.

Other than getting the police involved which ultimately we don’t want to do, as it’s commin sense that they’ve already got better things to do. What else can we do, or where does the law stand

I am sorry, but I cannot see any issues with your neighbour here.
I think you are weird to be honest.
What is weird about an electric gate? - Green with envy?
What is weird about two cameras in his front garden?

What is weird/wrong with cameras in his back garden facing his doors and windows? Obviously a modicum of common sense would dictate cameras and alarm boxes are placed high up to prevent criminals from vandalising it.

If you worry about privacy you should get yourself a brilliant invention called curtains :rotfl:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47214207

I find posts like this surprising, and people talking about GDPR and all this and that. I am not aware of any laws that prevent a home owner from recording their house, if some other area comes into the shot its not the primary purpose, no big deal.

Actually what are you gonna do about the big bad American, Russian, Chinese spy satellites taking a picture of you right now, go challenge them?:D

sajjed

I have CCTV fit high up on my house.
I am not particularly close to my neighbours but out of respect for their privacy I have applied the privacy filter and blocked out their garden.
Although my cameras appear to point in the direction of my large garden, They actually cover their large garden as well .
OP like most CCTV systems mine record, I would be happy to show my neighbours previous weeks recordings which prove their garden is blocked out ! If your neighbours have nothing to hide they should do the same.

PasturesNew

Living_proof wrote: »

... We are all on some camera or another particularly in town and in shops, but does it bother you?

I'm dressed in shops and towns. In my own back garden I'll often pop out in just a thong/t shirt for a cig... I'd hate to think I had to dress up to pop outside for a quick cig ... I'd hate to be "Old Ladies Shouldn't Wear Thongs" on Youtube.

Dean000000

Think it might end up elsewhere to youtube - there’s probably a niche market for that