Could your neighbour's Ring Doorbell or CCTV be breaking the law?

[@trinyyful]

Similar situation to me too. I realized that a sick intrusive woman was spied at me all the time. She is the porter. This woman set up one camera on the top of my door and just few weeks ago another one at front of my apartment. I spoke with the property owner to remove the cameras immediately. The complaint was based on the violation of my privacy. Cameras were removed in a couple of days. However, the crazy woman has 4 other cameras installed at front of her door and 2 more side to side of her apartment. She doesn't have life spyding people around. 😢

[@vidamarie7600]

This was so informative, I thought I was crazy about my creepy neighbors. Thanks!

[@tonih7511]

Great, thank you Daniel. I have a neighbour and we have joined driveways. He has a camera, which pointed at the front and can therefore see all comings and goings of me onto my driveway. With a audio recording. He also has a side camera and audio, which points into my back garden. Sensor lights on the side too. I've had to get the police involved and been to mediation. I've been watched, shouted at and intimidated. Total harassment and impacted on me enjoying myself freely in my front and back garden. He's out there sawing, banging, drilling on a Sunday morning, bank holidays, etc until the evening. He told mediators, he loses track of time!. I'm just about to get a ring light sensor which he will not be impressed about I feel. oh dear.

[@teanadodgson721]

I have similar with my neighbour who in a block of flats has put a ring door bell in a secure block so my daughter who’s 11 is scared to lay with her friend who also lives in the block of flats, he put fixed wall cameras at the front and back in the communal gardens too

[@mkaufer05]

In the USA, anything that can be seen in public from a public area can be legally recorded. Because here, you have no expectancy of privacy in a public area.

[@mypugisbacon4838]

Last I knew it was illegal to RECORD someone inside their house from outside their house. These cameras in apartment complexes are recording when neighbors open their door and the cam can see right into their house.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

The thieves are the only one with rights. A hard working home owner doesn't have rights.

[@jonestowne5920]

Thank you for this post DB, I put signs up near my door bell and other cameras just pointing along the perimeters of my house-

[@paulb176]

I always thought that processing personal data for purely personal or household purposes - such as via a ring doorbell - is outside the scope of the UK GDPR.

[@JimLem]

Same here. In fact, when I raised this query with the ICO over my own CCTV system, they informed me that GDPR laws apply only to businesses, organisations and other companies who store and process personal data. I was told that as long as my cameras were not watching over other private property or focused on or through people's windows, and that they were being used for legitimate security purposes, it would be very difficult for anyone to challenge my system in court. As much as I enjoy hearing Daniel's invaluable advice, I do feel he's not 100% correct on this.

[@ciaraskeleton]

The police openly told me to get CCTV immediately due to my neighbour being dangerous and targeting me. They will literally take any footage you have. Doorbell, camera, phone camera... If you're under threat, if you are experiencing crime, then I promise you that the police nor the government give a fuck. Put up a sign that says 'cctv in operation'. Done. There is very little anyone can do about you recording your own property. Unless you have set up your cameras facing their door directly or into their windows...then they have 0 leg to stand on. Cause unless they're doing something wrong, why worry? My country has one of the highest numbers of CCTV cams due to our past. Everywhere you go in this country, CCTV is operating, yet no one has a problem until you want to protect your own home.

[@peterc2248]

My neighbours ring doorbell points directly at my front door less than three feet away. They can presumably see me coming in and out and possibly hear me too. I've complained to them in the past about making excessive noise at 2am and when I last went down they told me I was being recorded and that they were calling the Police. I simply said fine, I'll wait for them. Obviously a bluff. Do I care, not really because its a rented flat so the law conveniently doesn't care about my rights so there's little i can legally do and I can't afford lawyers anyway. So the upshot is, if you're wealthy and own property, the law is on your side. If you're less well off and don't own property, you're shafted. Lawyers, politicians and used car salesmen - a poisonous triumvirate indeed unless you've got a suitcase full of cash :-)

[@asmrtpop2676]

if you can hit it from the side i would shoot paint at it with a water gun to cover it.

[@dhalsim-1]

Wait till they've gone to work then put some duck tape over it

[@Mariasellssocal]

My neighbor just put a ring camera we face each other's door maybe like 4 feet away. As you mention in this video what happens to the footage he picked up from people walking into my condo? What are the laws for this in CA

[@lukeblersch1444]

then you're dumb for letting some ignorant nehibours invade ur property with an device is illegal?(for youre 411?)

[@minekara6407]

I am currently dealing with this situation at my rented accommodation. Thus far none of the authorities are interested in helping me. Police, local authority, information commissioner, local solicitors, MP, even my neighbour.......it seems unless they are affected by such a situation no help is there.......

[@Fatpig-fq3vb]

Point of fact you can sue who you like for lots of reasons and win .But there is little point if that person has no means to pay or assets !

[@angieRN73]

Thank you 😊

[@dontpanicblink]

i live in a council block of 6 flats the shite of a neighbour downstairs is obviously recording everybody as they come in and out , so she knows who is in and out the building at all times , so if anybody has grassed her off the police have vistied her many times , but nothing seems to get done she even started shouting and swearing at police once( for loud music, slamming doors ,shouting ) she has a good idea who it would be, yet she always claims to be the victim, no wonder she is single

[@teanadodgson721]

This sounds almost like my block of flats and our ground floor neighbour who’s using his cameras to threaten and harass myself and my autistic daughter

[@ciaraskeleton]

My neighbour is like this, except she's not smart enough to be the one recording. I got a CCTV cam recently after an incident where she had put individually wrapped razor blades into my bin, with bloody/dirty kitchen roll and 2 sets of blue gloves. I phoned the police (they know her well due to her being a lot like your own neighbour) to come and collect evidence and take a report. They told me that I needed to get security cameras immediately. Anything to just watch my own door+property so that it can be given as evidence. The only people it will ever record are the people who come onto my property. No one else. It's not pointed at her, it's not pointed at anyone. It's inside my home pointed at my door. I have a sign that says CCTV in operation. There is absolutely nothing my neighbour can do about this. Nothing. If your neighbour is as bad as mine, then she's really recording her own shitty actions more than the camera would be a threat to you. Why are you concerned with her camera when she is the one who's allegedly the nuisance? Surely she's just recording her own antisocial behaviour then? Why does that bother you if you are not doing anything wrong?

[@lauracosgrave1293]

Hi. I'm currently going through this with my neighbour. I'm getting conflicting information about whether we have a leg to stand on. What have you been told?

[@marianrussell6089]

Great info, thankyou so much.

[@muhammadfezanamjad9836]

People are crazy in this country, i am always thinking about my life.. i never say anything to my neighbour

[@elliottg.1954]

Recent townie incomers to our little North Devon village have put up these snooping cameras, where there is next to no local crime. All these people do is infringe on people's privacy and snoop on everybody. These people believe they are somehow special but they've been reported to local authorities, the ICO, and the police. They might think their cameras are always justified and legal, but they are actually not. If the cameras stay up they will be sued.

[@dhalsim-1]

The doorbell cams are always recording and gathering data. You're not the only one who has access to it. Everything you say and do in front of them is permanently kept on a database. I hope the dummies who buy them soon realise that.

[@ciaraskeleton]

Unless you are engaging in crime you have 0 reason to worry. What are you afraid of? Are you a horrible neighbour? Are you a criminal? No one is interested in watching your boring little life, who tf would want to do that? Who would want that data? Literally fucking no one

[@donnaandersen8131]

What if they put them your house and they stalking you too

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

My neighbour walks into my front garden whenever she feels like it, and lets her dog run into my house, and she throws food into my garden, and she pulled up my fence, and pulled up my stepping stones, , and she shines powerful lights out of her window all night, and the police say this is not harassment because she has not threatened me with a knife, and that she has not broken the law. So i set up cameras, and now you’re telling me that she might be eligible for compo because of her need for privacy?

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

no privacy outside

[@irisdanagher]

Is this applicable to those renting?

[@kaimart795]

Good question. Particularly renting in a flat.

[@AsmaS-jl7vx]

I think there muat be some tax or fee for the people to pay who put on cameras on their houses and doors.

[@vidamarie7600]

Could you do a video on light traffic from neighbors home next door?

[@jmc8605]

Can someone comment on the use of cctv in a communal setting... example block of 4 flats one upstairs neighbour has 3 cameras one pointing at the public footpath and main road... one above the gate to access the rear garden and my downstairs flat rear entrance and the third above my bedroom window monitoring the rear of the property and my property entrance....

[@jonp6798]

I know there was a case where someone had a camera pointed at a communal car park to record their car but it was wide angle so it was deemed to not be appropriate as the purpose was to monitor their car. The question is, why is the area being recorded and is it appropriate for the purpose it was installed. Black Belt Barrister has answered this very question in one of his videos on what to do about it. :-)

[@teanadodgson721]

My ground floor neighbour in a block of 6 is doing this in the communal gardens front and back and a ring doorbell on the ground floor listening and watching us that he’s admitted to the police but it’s me who’s harassing him as I stuck my middle finger up at his doorbell camera

[@connie2671]

Thank you for clear concise advice . Does all of the advice also stand in Scottish law is it UK wide please ?

[@hybridangel3403]

Ring door bells are usually so they can see who is at the door if they ring it is additional that it may pick up crime. As criminals can use devices to render your door bell useess

[@asmrtpop2676]

it picks up movement. it’s incredibly invasive.

[@teanadodgson721]

Even more so in a block of flats

[@banster9631]

So are car crash cameras avasive as recording all areas as is your phone when out recording or where people are milling about.?

[@lukeblersch1444]

If there's using a door bell device for inappropriate behahavior to harass or racialy profile then the device is being miss used and is nornally deemed illegal?

[@LetMeTellUSomething...]

No right to privacy in public... I have no contract with anyone about gdpr I use footage how I like

[@nicon237]

Surely though you can see the difference between someone glancing at you in the street, to them following you whilst filming you with their camera phone. Is everything fair game whilst in public?

[@LetMeTellUSomething...]

@Nico N no you tell me in "public" in "private" Ask the paparazzi if it's legal lol

[@NMFF415]

Thank God for 1783!!!!

[@jarlaxle2421]

Easy answer, no it isnt. I just saved you 8 min

[@mickaparrish]

harassment and private nuisance ???????? nonsense

[@babegh4991]

I think you need to calm down with the hand gestures mate

[@asmrtpop2676]

found the incel!

[@yungmagik]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ballme60]

Can't watch your video. You talk too much with your hands and it is very distracting!!

[@Ricobaca]

Clickbait, this guy isnt American and this isn't about U.S.A

[@TechGorilla1987]

I figured that the word "Barrister" may have given it away. You're not revealing startling information.

[@asmrtpop2676]

people not being american is clickbait now? such a sensitive country 😂

[@Drenwickification]

How does that make it clickbait? 😂 he didn’t suggest anywhere in the title or thumbnail that he was American or this advice was applicable to Americans.

[@TechGorilla1987]

@@Drenwickification I know, right? It doesn't take much of a sleuth to determine that this guy is across the pond. I enjoyed the video even if it wasn't directed at me. I watched and I liked. Not once did I think that there was click bait involved. I mean click bait is usually pretty obvious.