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Most small-shop CCTV is installed by whoever had a ladder and a free Saturday. The result is four cameras pointed at nothing useful and a very well-documented kettle. Here's a layout that gets evidence you can actually use — without turning the staff room into a surveillance zone.
Half the alerts on your phone are foxes, posties, drizzle and a wheelie bin catching the light. The other half might be genuinely useful — if you know what the camera is really doing when it says 'person detected'. Here's how to tell smart analytics from expensive noise.
A camera bought to watch a van ends up watching next door's patio, and suddenly the street WhatsApp group is involved. Here's what the law and the ICO actually say, where the genuine risk sits, and the cheap fixes that cost nothing but a ladder and twenty minutes.
A knock at the door and a request for your camera footage can feel straightforward, but handing over the whole recording is rarely the best move. Here is a calm, plain-English approach to police requests, insurance claims and neighbour disputes.
A £30 doorbell camera looks like a bargain until you add up five years of cloud subscriptions, battery packs and a replacement unit. Here's the honest maths — plus what UK GDPR actually asks of householders filming shared paths.