A homeowner has been accused of filming directly into the house next door, leaving their neighbours feeling uncomfortable.
The affected woman anonymously posted on the r/legaladvice Reddit thread asking for help in a post titled "Neighbour has security camera pointing into our home".
She explained that she and her boyfriend are renting a property with a garden fence separating her garden from her neighbours, but that due to a storm the fence fell down.
She wrote: “During Hurricane Helene, a portion of our back fence separating our yard with the neighbours yard fell down. We’ve never met them.”
The neighbour is 'uncomfortable' with the camera pointing at her home
Reddit“Today we noticed the neighbour has installed a new security camera in the backyard but it’s pointing directly into our home."
The woman confessed to feeling very uncomfortable with the placement of the camera because she believes her and her partner no longer have privacy in their kitchen, dining room, backyard and porch.
“It’s also weird they placed it there because they have a fenced in yard too and it’s set up within the fence not where someone would actually break in from the front,” she said.
”I put up a tarp until our landlord gets the fence fixed. But even if the fence were up, it would still be an issue because it points right over the fence.”
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Fellow reddit users took to the thread to offer their advice, where many wrote that nothing could be done in this situation.
One replied: “There's no legal problem with your neighbour surveilling their yard in this way. Even if your house is in the background.”
Another person said: “You have no legal leg to stand on.”
The woman thanked commenters and said she appreciated their opinion.
The distressed woman took to Reddit to complain
PADeciding to take matters into her own hands, she said: "I’m going to get a fence extension to block the view once the landlord replaces the fence.”
She added: “[My] boyfriend is going to try talking to them soon but we wanted to make sure we are within our means to ask them to do that and then have the legal info ready in case they say no.”
“We don’t mind them having it up. We just don’t want it pointed over the fence.”
