to be annoyed by neighbour’s Ring camera?

[BlackBucketOfCheese]

Recently some kids on our street and the neighbouring street were messing around with cars over Halloween. One of the neighbours sent me her CCTV images of what had happened. It turns out her CCTV (a ring door bell clearly picks up my house and side garden.

We are the last house on our road and her house is on the street that is essentially the stroke across the top of the T, with our road being the stem. The streets are very, very narrow and I’m incredibly uncomfortable with how much she can see of our comings and goings (especially because her husband is an aggressive thug and doesn’t like us).

Our doorbell camera is set to only activate if someone opens our gate/comes on to our path way and is angled in such a way that we can’t see people passing in the street or onto other properties.

From the images she sent me, she can see my front door, hallway window, sitting room side window, stairs window, dining room window, side garden, garage doors and down the entire length of our road (probably not motion activated for the whole road as I doubt it picks it up that far) and from the images she has sent me, it is clear activity on my property (probably not inside the house) would activate her camera too.

Would you be annoyed by this?
Would you approach her - keeping in mind her husband is an awful person who once kicked off an argument in the street because my son’s friend (must have been around 12 at the time) said “your car is cool but not sure about the Man City plates” as a clear joke!

ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-guidance-for-people-being-filmed/

I once lived in between two sets of neighbours who had fallen out epically. Neighbour A had two cars set on fire and suspected B due to their argument. There was no evidence and nobody was ever prosecuted.

Neighbour B actually told me that story themselves in a "we know nothing about it, haha, nudge nudge wink wink" kinda way.

Neighbour A then set up CCTV all over the shop. Neighbour B, despite having a damn good reason to want the CCTV, was visited by the local police to be told about how/where the CCTV was pointed. In short, you can cover your own property and the public street outside, you can't cover other people's private property.

You could give your neighbourhood policing team a call, and they will pay them a visit to check the camera angles etc like they did with poor old A, who was frankly terrified in their own home after an arson attack. They were still made to adjust their cameras though.

I was extremely polite to both A and B after that!!

Bloody hell @MyOwnSummer

You can cover your own property only, not the street outside.

Get a strong laser pen and burn out the camera lens.

Ahh I may have got that wrong about the street - i know A with the CCTV had excellent footage of our road as they helped me when someone crashed into my parked car and drove off. They told me the police had checked the camera angles and approved them.