AIBU to remove the doorbell?

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We have a camera doorbell and a single camera covering the driveway.

Someone in the house keeps making repeat comments about me using it to spy on them. I don't even have the app FFS.

Today when a parcel came they told the driver I have 3 cameras to watch them. ( I didn't hear this exchange through the camera! He has a very loud passive aggressive voice and wanted me to hear.)

My and my screwdriver took both down. DH thinks I'm unreasonable as there'll be complaints when they miss the door.

Edited as i misread op

Who is the person who lives in your house?

i would still Put them back up, most of all for your own security, as you just don't know these days

What's her neighbour got to do with it?

"someone in the house" - do you mean in your house?

Omg it's just realised, I thought the op said that the neighbour had an issue

I’m not following. Who complains about spying? Someone in your house - the same house that owns the camera?

So you’ve removed your own doorbell… and the person who lives in the house with you is going to whinge that they miss deliveries? Is it a DC or relative living with you! Just say so!

If it’s a neighbour who thinks you’re spying on them, how would removing your doorbell stop them receiving deliveries?

Really not understanding this situation.

I cannot make head nor tail of this.

Eh?

Can you give a bit more detail OP?

Is this your home? Who thinks your spying on them and why?

I think OP and her screwdriver have also taken MN notifications down.

Well on the assumption that the someone in your house is your DH, don't remove the doorbell, remove the idiot DH.

I think you're being unreasonable expecting us to know what's going on here.

Did you drink the screwdriver OP?

Who is saying this? Very confusing.

I really dislike these cryptic posts. It’s like a game of guess who.

Your post makes no sense.

Who owns the house?
Who is the person living there and complaining?

There are more than 3 people in the house. The complainant, OP, and her husband.

Complainant says loudly he’s being spied on. DH thinks he’ll now complain about missing deliveries.

If no one is using the app, there’s not much point in the doorbell camera, and the complainant can sort their own way of monitoring the door. He can also ask the camera go back up, if he wants.

He sounds paranoid as well as passive aggressive. The delivery drivers won’t take him seriously I don’t think.

What? Where? Who?

Who is this annoying person living in your house?

Annoying teen/young adult or parent?
If the former, keep the cameras but remove ring doorbell and replace with normal doorbell.
If the latter, tell them that they'll be watched 24/7 after you put them into care, which you will if they can't be sensible.

It seems more and more on Mumsnet that people claim not to understand perfectly clear posts and put on a faux baffled demeanor. I feel like reading comprehension is really low on here these days. Depressing.

Anyway, if there's someone in the house who feels like the camera is intrusive as it monitors their coming and goings I think you have to take that seriously.

@EauNeu

Anyway, if there's someone in the house who feels like the camera is intrusive as it monitors their coming and goings I think you have to take that seriously

i would suggest it depends on who. Op is happy , so it’s husband or someone else. If it’s husband what does he have to hide? And he can suck up the missed parcels

if it’s a child it has diddly squat to do with them, if they are over 18 they are old enough to leave if they don’t like it

Op- we live in a world full of CCTV monitoring us 24/7. There is no reason for you to cutoff your nose by removing it, put it back and tell whoever is complaining if they don’t like it they can leave, it’s not about watching them, it’s about protecting them and the property

Surely it depends on whether that person is a temporary guest, a lodger, a teenager paranoid about not being observed coming home stinking drunk?

All of those people (assuming teenager is over 16 ) are entitled to some privacy

They're not entitled to require the security arrangements of the house are altered for them. Though it appears the OP has now taken down the doorbell after the complaint from this mysterious inhabitant and her DH thinks said person will now complain when he misses a delivery.