I’ve been reading something very recently that says that video recordings on an owners corporation camera are effectively documents owned by the OC and must therefore be made available to any owner who wants to see them.
I’m not sure about video recordings but I know privacy laws do not apply to owners corporations with an annual turnover of $3million.
I would say that the installation of a CCTV camera at a common area like a swimming pool was a significant alteration to common property (even though the physical disruption would be minimal) because of the effect it might have on users of the space.
In which case it would require a by-law and therefore a special resolution. I would include as part of the by-law the assumption that all owners were entitled to see the video but include an application system that required them to jump through many hoops, including providing National Police Checks documentation.
The point of that would be to deter anyone from accessing the video for nefarious and malicious purposes.
But either way, I feel the cameras must be covered by a by-law so that the owners in the building can control the storage of images recorded through them.