Security cameras - do I need to display a warning sign?

whitesatin

Installing a Ring Floodlight camera at front and back of house.  Do I need to display anything except the stickers supplied with the cameras?

travis-powers

I work on a lot of new builds and there is no notification of cameras!
The use of stickers is to make low life’s think twice but I’m pretty sure there is no legal requirement!

greatcrested

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property

MrsStepford

Kent Police said yes. I called Information Commissioner's Office, they said no. 

neilmcl

Depends where the camera is pointing. If it looks onto public land then yes, you're supposed to. Whether most people do or not is a different matter.

Rosa_Damascena

greatcrested said:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property

The question I would ask is whether a thief is going to notify the ICO if they are caught on camera.

Homer_home

whitesatin said:

Installing a Ring Floodlight camera at front and back of house.  Do I need to display anything except the stickers supplied with the cameras?

No

Any signs would have to be massive for anybody to be able to read them unless they entered your land 

whitesatin

Thanks, all.  I’m pretty sure that I can arrange for the cameras to record only within my boundary.  I’ve got plenty of Ring stickers on display.  Also, I’m going to get some of the plastic spiky stuff across vulnerable fences and I believe they come with their own signs.
I know I’m going OTT but the recent burglary had made me feel vulnerable. 

Homer_home

Do you have a burglar alarm or at the very least dummy bellboxes?

Mickey666

neilmcl said:

Depends where the camera is pointing. If it looks onto public land then yes, you're supposed to. Whether most people do or not is a different matter.

But public land is, er, public and there can be no expectation of privacy in a public place.   

Thomas_Crown

Mickey666 said:

neilmcl said:

Depends where the camera is pointing. If it looks onto public land then yes, you're supposed to. Whether most people do or not is a different matter.

But public land is, er, public and there can be no expectation of privacy in a public place.   

Nothing like as cut and dried as you try to make out out. Read the gov.uk link, in the post by greatcrested, it is very informative.