Is it illegal for the property to install cameras in the corridor privately? The owner didn't know.

It is not illegal for a property to install a camera in the corridor to protect the owner's safety, and it is also the property's safety protection obligation. If you install the camera privately for your own convenience, it may infringe on the rights of others, and it may be illegal to point the camera at public space or other people's residence.

Legal analysis

Many black property cameras in the community are useless, and they are broken at the critical moment, indicating that there is collusion inside and outside, asking for money indiscriminately, and the black property is looking for hooligans to forcibly collect property fees. If you don't pay the property fee, stop the water, row the car and gamble on the house key. The property forcibly collects water charges, the community's own well water, the property illegally collects water charges, and the property illegally collects community parking fees, whether it is an office building or a community. In recent years, disputes caused by privately installed cameras have shown an obvious upward trend. Although there are no specific provisions on privately installed cameras in China's laws at present, it must be based on the principle of not infringing privacy. Natural persons have the right to privacy, and no organization or individual may invade others' privacy by spying, invading, exposing or making public. Privacy is private space, private activities and private information that natural people don't want to know. The public part of residential unit building belongs to all owners. Secondly, the installed monitoring probe can only monitor the public part of the unit building, and shall not infringe on the independent private space of each owner, otherwise it may infringe on the privacy rights of others. Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is not illegal to install cameras to protect personal and property safety or public health without infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of others.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law

Article 42 Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means; (2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; (3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others; (six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.