Doorbell Camera GDPR Madness

[Alex88]

My house opens up directly onto the street - no front garden (you may remember it from the post I put up before I bought last year).

I'm late to the party, but have bought a Ring style camera doorbell for convenience, but also because our two cars are out the front and thought it would be handy to keep on record in case anything happens, etc.

However, as the doorbell naturally faces outwards, it is basically recording the public area and not my property.. and reading online, if I am to fit it, I need to comply with the GRPR laws as a data controller/processor or face consequences from the ICO!

But, there must be hundreds of thousands of similar setups across the country.

Do I just ignore and fit it anyway? That's what I'm tempted to do. I couldn't care less for people's 'personal data' conversations as they're waking past (wouldn't be recording sound anyway)

Cheers

[Mito Man]

Stick a CCTV sign up. You have a month to respond to any requests from the date of the request. Just go into the Ring settings and have it delete footage after a month that way you don’t have to play their stupid games.

[mik]

I think you are fine if you don’t distribute or post your footage (?)

Stick a couple of this kinda thing up round your property also.

Edit : won’t link - cctv stickers

[Alex88]

Thanks chaps!

Partner has said she doesn't want a CCTV sign in our window

Suppose I'll have to take the risk! Footage will be saved locally to the device and I'll see if I can have it erase after a certain amount of time, that way I'm not holding on to people's personal info

[ShockDiamonds]

As of yesterday (first use for a month or so) I have to accept GDPR-style notices in the BMW app if/when using the Remote Camera feature.

We will eventually legislate ourselves out of existence.

[Alex88]

Utter madness

[Mito Man]

When we had the fly tipping happen the council sent officers to check if we had CCTV signs up which were visible otherwise they couldn’t prosecute. Then they took pictures of the sign as evidence for the court case.
I wonder how far you can take that bit of silly law. Say someone commits a murder which no one has witnessed and the only bit of evidence is from a CCTV camera which has no sign warning that it is recording
Would that evidence then be inadmissible?

[Alex88]

FFS, really?

So, are they saying it's ok if there isn't a sign there?

SD is right, we will legislate ourselves to death.. it all starts to become so disconnected to the real world that the rules are supposed to cater for