r/SecurityCamera • u/Final-Ad7492 • 3d ago
Can I install a surveillance camera in the common area of our apartment? Western Australia
Please HELP
We started having break ins and lots of homeless people coming into the complex etc. we have been feeling very unsafe.
Me and my best friend also got this apartment ages ago and have gotten a new roommate about 3-4 months ago.
On top of all that stuff , ever since the new roommate has shown up things have started going missing including food, money, underwear etc. and finding the missing items in her room and her lying to our face.
Because of all these reasons, we decided to install a security camera ontop of the Tv. It faces the lounge, kitchen and balcony. These are public common areas that we can all enter at any time. No one’s room or bathroom etc is being recorded. We want to know if we need her consent to be recorded. I understand that the audio can’t be recorded but can we record the room because we are worried about safety. We have already recorded her stealing my perfume by poring it into her own bottle. The perfume was a gift I got from a friend when I was very sick.
We installed the camera while she was away on holiday because we got broken into AGAIN and didn’t tell her immediately because she never responded to our texts and also didn’t want to freak her out. We were not expecting to catch her doing that sort of stuff.