With a lot of domestic CCTV systems on the market to help protect your home. If you’re considering have one fitted, you will need to make sure that you do so in a way that respects the privacy of others.
You may have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 more often used in the workplace for the protection of employees and customers, but these legislations apply to anyone who is collecting data.
If your system is set up to only capture images within the boundary of your private domestic property including your garden, then the data protection laws will not apply to you. But if your system captures images of people outside that boundary such as a neighbour’s garden or public footpath you will need to ensure that your use of CCTV complies with these laws.