You have the right to use security camera’s.
By Reporter Joseph Toth
Washington Micro Bank BBS
Submitted 04-20-07
You have the right to use security camera equipment, but do it legally.
You may install security camera’s (conventional or covert hidden equipment) in your own home to watch your loved ones and your property.
More and more people including myself are using this technology in their homes. Anyone can do this, but do it legally. This can be done to watch your home while you are at work or away on vacation. This can also be done to record the stranger that you hired to baby-sit your children to make sure things are worry free. This is also good for watching over the safety of senior citizen family members or even adolescents entrusted to be home alone for short periods of time. Renters are urged to use this equipment because most landlords have keys for tenant homes. Using this technology helps you monitor illegal and unauthorized entry by such personnel.
You may ask, … Okay, how do I do it legally?
You can use such equipment to watch the main area’s of your home; Kitchens, living rooms, recreation rooms, dining rooms, basements, yards, patio’s, pools, driveways, garages and the entrances to your home.
You may ‘not’ use cameras in bedrooms, bathrooms, dressing rooms or anywhere else the human body can be found in compromised privacy. There are State and Federal laws on the books regarding this activity. Violators can get in a lot of serious trouble for inappropriate use of such equipment.
Your outdoor camera’s can catch a problem before it enters your home, or can show authorities what happened prior to a entry. However these too, have to be installed legally. Try to keep the camera’s viewing range on the footprint of your property or within the property lines of your property.
Example: Installing a camera to watch your driveway is fine. However, if you install such a camera and the monitor can see the windows of your neighbors house, … you have trouble. Get the ‘picture’.
Make sure the equipment is aimed so it doesn’t violate anyone else’s privacy located off your property.
Just a little common sense can avoid problems. The equipment can be worth its weight in gold when used properly.
