Ring door bell owners.

[FabulousWealthyTart]

I am asking for wider point of view and welcome opinions from all sides. Sorry if it's a bit long.
We have a neighbour who has recently moved into the house 2 doors down. We live in a bog standard neighbourhood,quiet all get along etc and our particular house does not have garage access because our landlord lets it separately. All our neighbours have garage access.
The new neighbour has a problem with not being able to park their cars near the front of their house on the road. We have had notes on the windscreen, them moving their cars at all hours to prevent others parking etc etc. It is annoying and unnecessary and previous talks have fallen on deaf ears.
My daughter's boyfriend reached the end of his patience today with it all and had a chat with them on their doorstep ,not in a nasty way but it is a situation which needs sorting once and for all.
They have a Ring doorbell and in the course of the conversation it became evident that this neighbour knows all our movements : when my daughter leaves for work, comes home from work,they figured that her boyfriend doesn't live here because of the times he is here etc, etc . I don't have a Ring doorbell and was slightly disturbed at the level of surveillance it provides..is this normal?

That applies to ring doorbells as well as cctv

The ring doorbell that could have listened in to the conversation I had with my friend is on a terraced house so directly on the pavement. We have a drive but not all houses do. I live in an ex industrial town, there are lots of big Victorian factories converted in to housing or housing several business so there are loads of workers terraced houses straight on to the street.

It’s 1984 by the back door

You'd have a point if it was in OPs living room

There have always been nosey buggers like this. If video doorbells didn't exist, they would be lurking by the window and sharing notes with other curtain twitchers...

It depends how it's set up - ours doesn't record footage (because I'm too cheap to pay for the subscription and we only really wanted it to see who was at the door if DH is working in his office on the third floor), and I've set privacy areas so it doesn't trigger with movement as the neighbours come and go into their house, or on the street outside. I've disabled the movement alerts altogether to be fair, although DH keeps his on.

I think people tend to assume they record everything though from the sheer number of people (and police) we get knocking at the door asking if we've got footage of car bumps pulling out of the T junction opposite.

I guess it depends on whether you have a driveway. Mine only monitors my driveway and alerts me if there is movement or someone ringing. Most of the time the movement is a cat so I never bother look.
If we didn't have a driveway then I imagine it would record the street and, if we were so inclined, we could definitely log on every time movement was detected.

So the ring doorbell is normal but your neighbours aren't. No different to curtain twitching though with what they can see.

With regards to the parking, I would just park where there was a space. If there were multiple spaces I would try to avoid theirs. I would ignore all notes. They can move their cars around as much as they like if they want to waste their time. All is fair when road parking.

Also - I don't know anyone who actually pays for the recording feature. It's a subscription service. We don't record anything either as it's a deterrent just having one.

Only the nosey neighbours on our street have them so they don't miss a thing, my neighbours are the ones who sit on their drives watching everything, pretend to put things in their bin if someone is having a delivery, so they love their ring doorbells.