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Originally Posted by flstf
It would seem to me that in public or on someone else's private property that there would be no expectation of privacy from being photographed or video taped except for obvious privacy violations like bathroom and upskirt cams, etc..
If true, I had no idea that it was illegal to have a security camera in your house or on your porch and driveway.
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In some states you can do have whatever you like for security purposes. In the vast majority (and I believe Ohio is one) you need some form of warning. That's why you tend to see a lot of "this property protected by....." signs. Yes, it advertises the security company but also allows anyone coming onto the property that the maybe observed.
Just like stores, 99% of the stores you go into in Ohio have a sticker on their door announcing video surveillence (this also allows them to hide cameras from view (i.e. the ceiling globe, mannequins eyes, etc.)). The rest just have them in plain sight, usually with a sign around them.
The purpose for advertising that you are under video/audio surveillence is so that in court you cannot in any way fight the tapes, i.e. "I didn't know I was being observed, had I known I would have acted differently", "you violated my client's civil rights by videotaping him....".
It's also like taping a phone conversation. In some states like Ohio, as long as one side knows that it is being taped it's ok as long as you have at regular intervals a beeping sound from the recording device audible to both parties.
In most states you must inform the person you are taping them. If the call is interstate you must inform them the call is being taped or monitored.
That's why most telemarketers and telephone service people tell you that the conversation maybe taped or monitored. That way if you threaten to kill the guy/lady or decide you want to go nuts and kill everyone in a 100 mile radius and you decided to tell them for some reason..... that tape can be used for court prosecution against you. (Not the reason why they tape you.... but .....)