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Security cameras used to be streamed into each unit in our NSW tower. The executive committee decided we needed a $26,000. new cameras and computer. The unit owners were also verbally told that we would be able to use an app when away for long periods of time or overseas. Out of the 22 cameras we got to see 9 for 3 months and never any of the garage area where we all have valuable assets like golf clubs buggies tools etc etc. We were told that many eyes make good security.
The last newsletter we received;
FRONT DOOR CAMERA. Following a number of concerns expressed by the residents regarding privacy related to the multi-screen camera display on Channel 101 on your apartment TV, the Executive Committee has responded by deciding to return to the previous practice of displaying only the front door and letterbox areas.
The single screen display is intended for the identification of your visitors to the building.
Question. What can we do to see the garage at night?
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Presumably the cameras are still recording, so security has not really been compromised.
However, you could propose a motion for your next EC meeting or, failing that, AGM that you get full coverage again.
When a committee member says, as they inevitably will, that this would be in breach of privacy laws, ask them to point out which laws. Basically, so long as you aren’t recording sound, there is no issue.
Fundamentally, this is all about what the majority of owners in your building want. If the community standard is that every coming and going should be observable from behind the virtual net curtain of CCTV, then they can choose that.
But if the majority wants their secret lovers, drug dealers, escorts and exotic dancers to come and go unobserved, then that is their choice too.
This has nothing to do with privacy laws and everything to do with democracy in its rawest form. For what it’s worth, I bet the golfers will lose and the drug dealers will win this one.
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