Even as a domestic ring doorbell user you should have a ‘policy’ if it’s impossible to not blur out anything beyond ‘your land’ (A topic I’m sure we’re all familiar with here) when the camera gets triggered. E.g. the postman will set mine off every day because he can’t be arsed to go via the public footpath to get to my neighbours house even if there’s no post for me) so for those 10 or so seconds i’m recording across the street whether i like it or not.
Worse is my actual neighbour will trigger it when he stands on my drive and chats to another neighbour meaning I record their whole conversation, which is probably a bigger problem (I could just turn the sound recording off, but haven’t)
I haven’t bothered putting stickers up, and no one as of yet seems to be arsed, but we’ll see since this story, but as most of my neighbours are elderly, they probably don’t have a clue or are happy for some extra security. Although judging by the footage some people post on the village socials, anyone up to no good doesn’t really care about these systems anyway and know all to well they probably aren’t going to get identified anyway! I’m not even sure they have a use as a deterrent now, all they do is let you know someone’s been up to no good!
If you’re ever asked you should be able to provide details of how long you keep data for, and not only that, but if you’re using cloud based storage it gets even more messy. What’s their data policy and how long do they retain data even after you’ve deleted it!
Not sure if I should be worried or not I’ve got 4 Ring cameras watching over my property one of witch is over looking a joint driveway. But I’d like to think I’d be OK as almost every single house in my street has a ring doorbell as we’ve had a spate of wa*kers trying car door handles in the middle of the night on several occasions.
Three or four chavs together, all dressed in black coloured tracky bottoms and hoodies, and masks now too
The annoying thing is they know the law so they’re not tooled up for breaking in to cars, they’re literally just trying their luck on unlocked car doors and side-entry gates to the gardens on our street
The old bill can’t do a thing about it, and these chav 's know it too.
One of the blokes who works for me caught some mofos trying to steal his cat-convertor.
Terraced housing, so he parks his car just wherever he can on the street. Heard his car alarm one night, looked out to see a car parked parallel to his with the hazards on and two blokes hovering around his car.
Went running out in his boxers to be met by a similarly tooled up lookout to yours
Anyway, we digress, but ffs just get a job you thieving c*$£@!!'s
Back to the privacy issues with home security. Anyone who reports somebody for protecting themselves against theses types of scum deserve to be broken into in my opinion lol
Spent enough of my life skating to know that this particularly brand of cunt isn’t uncommon I’m afraid, always the one with a 5 year old on scooter getting in the way on the ramps while people are trying to skate.
Did you know that if you have a dashcam fitted to your car you are supposed to have something to warn the public that they are being videoed ?
"I confirm that I understand that dashcam footage falls under the Category of CCTV and as the footage is taken in the public domain, the Domestic Purposes Exemption under the Data Protection Act/UKGDPR does not apply and therefore all users are Data Controllers in their own right. As such you should be informing the public that they are being filmed and should have some form of notification on your mode of transport as you have responsibilities under the Data Protection Act /UKGDPR "
If a Karen or Ken complains about possibly appearing inadvertently in any video or photo taken with my drone, I ask them to go shopping in our city centre for a few hours, then come back and tell me how many times they’ve been caught on video.
Had this argument on FaceAche once and one reply was “But that’s different.”
That’s all well and good but, just how are you supposed to see, let alone read the warning when the car is passing you at speeds of 30 mph or higher. What about the other side of a duel carriageway. Don’t think they’ve thought the regs for dashcams through very well…
I only discovered it this morning as I was uploading video to the Lancs Constabulary website ( driver ahead of me was on a video call on their phone while driving ! )
I have been asked by the police for footage from my house door bell… (stole car of a neighbour’s drive in the vicinity)… it is amazing how people want footage when need it and carp about it when they don’t because it invades their privacy.
Seems like a good thread to mention something my wife saw on TikTok this weekend. It was some guy livestreaming the feed from his drone in Newport, spying on people just going about their business in the evening, following people about
That, possibly, isn’t strictly legal. You can publish/show footage and stills of people in public if they are captured incidentaly or part of a wider scene, think street photography. Following people about and making them the star of show without permission/model release forms is a little different, especialy if there is any financial gain. Not that I am the drone police, just wanted to put it out there for our members to be aware of. The laws are becoming incredibly murky these days.
I have security cameras front and rear of my house. Have had the police ask if they can view footage a few times ( they’ve never told me it was illegal, nor that I need any notices up)
been following this thread as well… doh!
's know it too.
