if you plan to install a security camera around your house, can you point your security camera at your neighbor's house? And can you install CCTV on your property with bad neighbors?
By the time you're done reading this post, you'll have all the answers to the above questions.
When It Is Legal to Have IP Cameras Pointed at Your House
When It Is Not Legal to Install IP Cameras Aimed at Your House
What to Do with Your Neighbor's Cameras Pointed at Your Property
Yes, Your Neighbor's Security Cameras Can Point at Your House If …
Essentially, the legality of your neighbor's security camera overlooking your property depends on what the camera is used for, what acts it is capturing and what your neighbor is doing with the video footage.
In the following scenarios, your neighbor can have security cameras pointed at your house legally:
#1. Your Neighbor's Security Camera Aimed at Your House Is Indeed Capturing a Broad Area
As the property owners, your neighbors are entitled to install security cameras in and around their house
And you have the right to do so as well.
So if your neighbor places an IP camera for security purpose and it happens to capture your front door, driveway or yard which are visible from public areas, you can't press charges against your neighbor as you have no expectation of privacy outdoors.
2. The Footage of Neighbor's Security Cameras Overlooking Your Property is in Lawful Use
How your neighbor deals with the footage of his security camera pointed at your house, is another factor your need to consider.
As long as the recorded videos don't infringe on your privacy and are for lawful purpose only .
it is legal for your neighbor to point a security camera at your property in plain view.
No, Your Neighbor Can't Legally Have Security Cameras Pointed at Your House If …
There are also exceptions in which your neighbor can't install security cameras aimed at your house.
#1. Your Neighbor's Security Cameras Point at Your House Where You Have Expectation of Privacy
Though your neighbor can record you on your property in plain sight, things are different for the places where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as your bathroom, bedroom, restrooms, locker rooms, changing/dressing rooms, etc.
According to the residence security camera laws, your neighbor might invite legal trouble in if he points security cameras at areas where you couldn't view without
The Videos of Your Neighbor's Security Cameras Are Misused
Worse yet, the perverted neighbors may point security cameras at your children's bedrooms to be a high-tech peeping Tom.
And some even post the video footage recording your activities on the social media.
Such wrongful application of home security cameras (like spying on you), without any doubt, is illegal and you can ask for the interference of law enforcement and claim harassment.
What to Do If Your Neighbor Has Security Cameras Pointed at Your House
Feel uncomfortable and nerve-wrecking about your neighbor's security camera pointed at your house/property?
Instead of using illegal ways to the jam the surveillance cameras, which would only make the matter become worse, below are some practical tips you can adopt after you find your neighbor recording you on your property.
The first golden rule is to talk with your neighbor, in a good manner.
Tell him/her how you feel about the security camera aimed at your house (they may be unaware of the fact) and ask with politeness if it is possible to adjust the viewing angle of the camera.
Another feasible way to block your neighbor's security cameras overlooking your property is to plant grown trees or fences as buffers, so as to blind the camera's field of view.
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