Can you video tape someone without their consent?

Can you video tape someone without their consent?

Generally speaking, though, when you are in public, it is legal to record someone, video record or audio record, as long as they don’t have what is called, “an expectation of privacy,” or rather a reasonable expectation of privacy.

What to do if someone is video taping you?

Your legal right is to return to a private area, your home for example, and then if they enter your property to continue filming you, call the police on them for trespassing. In general, whatever anyone can legally see with their own eyes can be recorded by electronic eyes.

Can you sue for being recorded?

You can probably sue someone who records you without permission on private property, or when you were expecting privacy. But suing someone for recording you on public property, or when they were a party to the conversation, is more difficult.

Is it legal to videotape someone on your own property?

Nobody has any legal rights to video you inside your home – without your consent. See a legal representative, or call the police. Whether videotaping you on your own property is legal or not depends on your local law. But if you want to end it, and still remain of reasonably good terms

Can My Neighbour video record me when I visit my house?

People also have no legal expectation of privacy when they are in public, or in their license plate numbers, and so your neighbor is perfectly free to video tape and photograph people and their vehicles when they are coming to visit you.

Is it illegal to videotape someone with a hidden camera?

Filming someone with a hidden camera is always illegal (except for Law Enforcement and Security Services). Filming someone in a private place without the consent of those present is also illegal. Generally its not illegal to videotape someone in your home.

Is it legal for someone to take pictures inside your house?

On the other hand, people are allowed to photograph (or video record ) anywhere they have a lawful right to be. So if they are standing inside their own kitchen and can record inside your house, it’s debatable if their right to photograph trumps your rights to privacy.