Neighbors are not allowed to install surveillance cameras that record their own property as well as that of their neighbors. This has now been decided by the Bad Iburg District Court (AZ: 4 C 366/21). In this case, a neighbor of a semi-detached house had installed surveillance cameras with intelligent video technology on his property, which can, among other things, identify objects and people in real time.
One of the video cameras is aimed at the entrance area and the access road and footpath, while the other is aimed at the garden and the fields behind the semi-detached house. Both cameras can also record the neighbors' property, which they objected to. Rightly so, as the local court ruled. The cameras in this form must be removed as they violate the right to privacy.
In its decision, the district court also took into account the fact that the neighbors had been at odds for several years. It therefore declared the claim for injunctive relief to be based on so-called "surveillance pressure". According to the district court, this exists "if someone objectively has to seriously fear surveillance by surveillance cameras". This was the case here and the plaintiff could "actually have an objectively comprehensible concrete fear [...] that the cameras in dispute would be used for surveillance".
Source: Bad Iburg Local Court/AZ: 4 C 366/21; amtsgericht-bad-iburg.niedersachsen.de
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