To think its weird to have security cameras in your house?

[BuzzingtheBee]

Unless its a baby monitor?

Friend has them in her house. Her abusive ex has broken in 3 times and assaulted her. He is now in prison and the video footage helped put him there.

My friends parents used to have a cctv camera to check they were getting home on time as a teenager, they’d be out at the pub 🙄

The entire exterior of our home is covered by cameras. It makes me feel safer, even though we mostly just catch wildlife encroaching. I’m not comfortable having them inside, but DH would if I didn’t object.

We have cameras externally with video playing to our phone live, then we have sensors in every room and alarms, Shock sensors on the windows and extremely secure locks on all doors.

Security is so important!

The only people I know who have them inside both cheated on their exs with each other and are now married. I imagine the cameras are to deter cheating again with someone else.

@JudithGrimesHat

Friend has them in her house. Her abusive ex has broken in 3 times and assaulted her. He is now in prison and the video footage helped put him there.

Now THAT is a good enough reason to have cameras in your house.

Otherwise? I agree with PP saying its an invasion of privacy. I wonder how many people who have cameras inside the house also tell friends and family they are been filmed (which only be fair btw)

We have them because before we got them, the care agency never, ever believed us. Not once.

So now we make the report and then when they tell us we are lying or wrong (about whatever it is, usually sleeping but sometimes stealing or yelling etc), we send the video. Much easier.

We just had them put up outside and we were asked if we wanted them indoors. Nooo thanks, even today my son came downstairs without his clothes as he was looking for his pyjamas. Imagine if the mobile phone app got hacked?? No way.

I can totally understand having them turned on while you're out at work or away on holiday so you have evidence of any break-ins. Similarly they' be quite useful for watching dogs etc!

I wouldn't have them turned on if I was home, though. It's a bit creepy to me!

i once babysat for a family that had cctv cameras in pretty much every room of the house. it made me feel so uncomfortable and on edge that i never babysat for them again.

We have a couple. They are for monitoring ds (5) who is severely autistic.

We have a dog camera for watching him sleep, move to a new spot to sleep, move back to the old spot to sleep and repeat .

I go in and out of clients houses when they are not there for my work. Some clients have told me they have cameras indoors, one started to point them out to me, I said I didn’t need to know as I wasn’t bothered I would just be doing my job. I never ask why they have them, none of my business.

I'd never have them in main socialising rooms, like the living room or kitchen bedrooms but I can see the security value in having them in hallways or office for example.

Both my neighbour and me have survived a home invasion that involved a weapon. I'd have them in a heartbeat.

We have CCTV in the living room and kitchen, we are pretty isolated so it makes us feel safe even though the area is very low crime. We use it to keep an eye on our dogs if we go out but it gets switched off when we are in the house / we have people staying looking after the dogs. Very wrong to have it on when people don’t know, total violation.

We have cameras inside. We got them for the dog as I worry about him when we’re at work. I can check in and see that he’s still in bed, or that he’s been driving water when it’s hot.. basically stops me going mad worrying about him everyday. And our alarm system came with another 2, apparently police are more likely to attend a burglary / alarm activation if there’s proof that the burglars are still in the property. The cameras are only ever on when all people are out of the house.

We have them in each room. Mostly due to ASD teen

• drinking water.. not driving..

Obviously not the toilet, bathroom bedroom

I have a friend who has them all over her house. Her DH travels frequently for work and she says he likes to watch them while he's away so he's still involved in family life He's been known to call her and tell her off for something he's seen on the cameras. She refuses to see how controling that is.

I'd like to get a Ring doorbell but the above puts me off, even if DH never would be bothered to figure out how to use it.

@Fudgebrownie Lol

Once put the desktop computer camera on as couldn't identify WHICH of the labradors was guilty of vacuuming up the cat's food and basically saw the guilty canine performing moves worthy of being a stunt double in THE MATRIX

I think it is fine to have them inside the home if they are focussed on external doors but otherwise are intrusive on residents.

I do know someone who put one up in his mum's room because she had carers in and was saying that they hurt her. (They did hurt her but it was accidental due to her skin being so delicate).

I heard of someone using a webcam to find out who was turning the electric fire on every day and it was the dog