What to do if your neighbor is recording your house

Our Take

Legal Cannon's video walks through solid, practical advice: document the intrusion, send a written demand, lawyer up if needed. It's the kind of guidance that exists because, at least in theory, there are legal boundaries around one neighbor pointing a lens into another's private life. That's worth noting, because it throws into sharp relief just how few boundaries exist once that camera belongs to a government contractor instead of the guy next door.

Flock Safety cameras don't care about your bedroom window specifically, but they log every plate that passes, building a searchable record of your comings and goings, day after day, often without a warrant, without notice, and without the kind of individualized harm a court can easily point to. A neighbor's camera is a dispute between two people. A city-wide ALPR network is a surveillance system that treats every driver as a suspect worth tracking, all before anyone asks whether it makes anyone safer.

If a single camera aimed at your porch feels like an invasion, it's worth asking what a network of hundreds aimed at every street in your town amounts to. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and visit take-action for ways to push back before it becomes permanent infrastructure.