This guide will help you if you want to understand what data protection law says when someone is using home CCTV at their property. This includes the use of fixed cameras and smart doorbells.

CCTV can help protect a person’s property. However there are some rules that owners should follow.

Where possible owners should position their cameras to only capture their own property. However, if this isn’t possible and the CCTV captures someone else's property, a public area or communal space, then data protection law applies. This is because CCTV can capture images and voices of other people, and this counts as their personal information.

In brief, this guidance covers: