My neighbour, a serving police officer, has installed CCTV on his home. One camera is pointing straight at my front door. Nobody can visit my home without being filmed. I consider this an invasion of my privacy. Before I speak to him, he's not the most gracious person, I need to know where I stand in asking him to angle the camera away from my home.
PP: There used to be a direct reference to the test case I've referred to above on the ICO's website but, since that site got merged into the Gov.uk setup, it's (annoyingly) no longer there.
With the ever-increasing usage of cameras which clearly aren't covered by the Data Protection Act (such as dash-cams, helmet-cams, body-cams and mobile phone cameras), those provisions of the DPA which deal with CCTV seem to be becoming increasingly redundant anyway.
Thanks hc, I'm only looking back on this now - she said it was about 50m away - I thought that was terrible to have it flying over her garden and the noise of it she said was like a swarm of bees
Last week on bbc tv, ''The Met: Policing London'', a man wearing a silly mask, was followed from Hyde Park, by cctv where there had been about a thousand young people, drunk and drugged up had been fighting, and shouting, black people matter.
He stabbed 2 people with a very large knife, one seriously, and was followed to Marble Arch, a bar, then took his mask off, showing his face.
He was known to the police, and arrested the next day, thanks to cctv.