Neighbours cameras in back garden

[youllsan]

We have neighbours around us who have cameras up high on their houses so we have no privacy in our back garden.
There is no need for this as could have put cameras up half way on their houses and would not have infringed on our privacy.
I think this is weird and intrusive.
What do others think?

As I said one of cameras pointed in our garden not the neighbours but on their house so my concern is we have three teenagers who don't like camera pointed at them especially the two girls and sometimes there are weirdos living near us all. The camera also moves when my teenagers in garden!

Thankyou

@TheRealHousewife

That is awful. The scary think is that hardly anyone seems to think there's an issue with being recorded & monitored.

I always wondered how the Stasi got away with tapping phones & following people about. They wouldn't even have to be secretive nowadays. The information would be willingly shared!

@Blushingm

That's awful. However it seems we are in the minority in not wanting to be filmed 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have cameras mounted high. They still only cover our property.

our neighbors also have cameras mounted just under the eaves. I have seen footage from some of them because we all tend to share footage of interesting animals that wander through. No one’s cameras are on anyone else’s garden.

the camera’s are motion activated. Pointing that at someone else’s garden would mean triggering every time someone else went outside. We get alerts when our garden camera’s trigger as a security measure. We definitely don’t want them going off every time a neighbor steps outside. That would defeat the purpose.

2 years running someone came into our garden and picked every single apple on our trees. They've not been back since we installed cameras.

As soon as I step out of my front door the people across the greens lights and camera activate - they aren't very nice and have harassed other neighbours including an elderly widow - it makes me very uncomfortable

I do feel for people who have inconsiderate neighbours. I totally understand not wanting to be filmed in your own garden, by someone else's CCTV. We've previously been broken into, hence why we have cameras. But I have no interest in filming someone else's garden as it would feel totally inappropriate and intrusive.

At our old place there were two NDN who fell out about this. The one who didn't want his neighbour filming him, replaced his 3ft fence with a 6ft one, which was very effective as his garden was higher up.

Nosy NDN threatened to complain about loss of light, until private NDN pointed out that the gardens were SW facing at the end and the fence was still only 3ft there, the fence height was within the limit allowed, and he would love to hear the council's response to a complaint about a perfectly lawful fence on the basis that it stopped you filming your NDN in his garden...

I totally understand, OP, our neighbor has cameras and often comments on the comings and goings of our grown children. She also comments on things happening in our backyard, even close up to the house. It's unnerving.

Just to say regarding police, there was a break in across the road and they knocked on door to ask if the camera had footage. When I said no that I only had it on my boundaries he replied it's a shame as they help with crimes. So if you are going to contact the police be prepared to be told to speak with your neighbours.

Ours is high, but to avoid any problems we have blocked the part of the garden visible. Perhaps the OP’s neighbour could do the same.

Yes and yes.

I’d simply talk to your neighbour as a first stop, why not?

The police actually came and asked me if I could have a look at my clips a while ago because a car had been stolen. We looked at it together. I told them that I’d created zones outside of my area of land interest and it was unlikely. There was nothing to see because of that.

How do you know that they haven’t zoned out anything beyond their boundary unless you ask them.

No I didn’t inform anyone, why would I? And definitely not, I am only interested in my property, they’re for looking at if something goes wrong (like my previous burglary), I’ve got better things to do than watch the recordings of my flowers wafting in the breeze.

Not sure which country you're in but the quote came from the ico website, which covers the UK

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/domestic-cctv-systems/

Just add not all police officers know every point of the law correctly. You tube has some good clips