Neighbour has intrusive cctv cameras

I'd have a chat with the neighbour and explain your concerns

I would be hounding the data protection commissioner or get a solicitor involved he sounds like a right creep.

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/blogs/domestic-cctv

Cheap camera tripod with a cheap laser pointer aimed straight into his camera.

What about the one that's at the bottom of the garden? How high up is that?

I think the laser option would be best so it's not as obvious.

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ive seen cases in England a few years ago in the papers where house camera owners were taken to court - this was early days of door cameras but still, they seem to take their data and privacy stuff seriously there.

It sounds like you have an ongoing issue with the neighbour that won’t be resolved with a quiet word.

Solicitor advice seems to be the way to go but ask them to outline the potential costs of a court action - this is obviously bringing stress on you and your family so it’s not a small thing at all - I’d imagine you have a strong case here but that’s a total layman’s view not legal advice- maybe under some form of harassment legislation? And even if the cameras are proven to be duds that may not matter as the impact is the same - but again legal advice required.

Id be very disappointed if the courts didn’t look at your case favourably - I set up my own video doorbell recently- very careful to map the boundary of what it recorded and obviously very happy to show anyone who asks just what it records and doesn’t record - I don’t see this ending shortly but you can’t live in this stressed way either

This.

I would be making a claim of harassment against him. This is more than a property dispute if the man is aiming a recording device directly into the bedroom of your young daughter (or any member of your family)

I'd be looking to get an anti social behaviour order against your neighbour ordering him to move the cameras so that he is not directly recording your family in such an obviously intimidating way

I guess taking advice of solicitor is next route -- I think there’s certainly some sort of harassment thing going on here but only a solicitor could advise - the DPC article does call out dummy cameras as a challenge - given your relationship you’ve no way of knowing if they are real or not but to me they’re harassment regardless - but it’s what the law says that counts

https://www.dataprotection.ie/sites/default/files/uploads/2021-11/Guidance%20on%20the%20use%20of%20Domestic%20CCTV.pdf

Op, I work in this area as an electrical contractor. People who install cameras need to have a PSA licence.

When a camera is installed that overlooks someone's garden, they put in a recording blacked out area on that particular part. Even if it's a PTZ camera, when you move the camera within the zone it comes up automatically as a blacked area. They literally have to do this.

I would wager when they investigated they saw this blacked out area and were satisfied.

You can get an idea of this here

https://youtu.be/fBuy1pipQjg?si=metu2Ze440g66qRM