The lodger has left.
I stuck a cheap camera in the computer room and connected it to the VCR in my bedroom. After recording her in the computer room going through all the desk drawers and paper files I then moved the camera to my bedroom and recorded her looking through all drawers, cupboards and wardrobes.
I gave her 3 hours notice to leave. The bond I have will cover cost of the change of door locks.
Adam
Congrats !
What was her response when you told her what you`d done ?
Silence. She walked out leaving all her stuff and has gone to stop at her friends house.
Adam
She'll try to have you for invasion of privacy and illegal monitoring, you wait and see :)
Si
Surely "the camera was there to ensure the safety of the tenants"?
If she were to complain the landlord could merely point out all the valuable and rare objects that he'd had stolen over the previous few months....the tenant would have to prove it wasn't them that was taking the stuff...
Give the ex-tenant 2 weeks in writing to remove her stuff. Once the two weeks have passed you can dispose of it how you like. sponix
But the DPA requires that CCTV usage is signposted "Images are being recorded for the detection of crime blah blah"... Don't know if this is required in this situation?
No, innocent until proven guilty.
alex.
The most relevant bit is; "...I then moved the camera to my bedroom...". The lodger wasn't invited into the OP's bedroom & if he wants cameras in his bedroom, that's his business.
But..if she believes stuff has been stolen she'll obviously assume she'd be prime suspect in any subsequent Police investigation!
She'd therefore be unlikely to kick up a fuss as the last thing she'd want is to be dragged in for questioning whether guilty or not.
sponix
Surely you can monitor your own bedroom?
Christian.
And he always has the defence that he is in fact a perve, and likes to have a camera in his bedroom...it's her fault she was noticed by it!
Depends who else is sleeping there and if they know! :-)
Mr F.
More important surely is that she was invading his privacy in the first place.
Not sleeping but snooping.
Adam
No, data processed only for personal, family or household affairs are exempt from the DPA.
David
No, it isn't. Such use doesn't even come under the DPA.
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