JBass Wrote:
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> Are you retarded. There is no law anywhere that
> prohibit a person from taping inside their own
> residence. They also own said footage and may do
> what they want with it. Fact.
It depends on what you're videotaping. If you hide a video camera in the bathroom of your own house and record girls taking a piss in the bathroom, you've committed a misdemeanor, according to Virginia law § 18.2-386.1.A, to wit:
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally videotape, photograph, or film any nonconsenting person or create any videographic or still image record by any means whatsoever of the nonconsenting person if (i) that person is totally nude, clad in undergarments, or in a state of undress so as to expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast in a restroom, dressing room, locker room, hotel room, motel room, tanning bed, tanning booth, bedroom or other location; or (ii) the videotape, photograph, film or videographic or still image record is created by placing the lens or image-gathering component of the recording device in a position directly beneath or between a person's legs for the purpose of capturing an image of the person's intimate parts or undergarments covering those intimate parts when the intimate parts or undergarments would not otherwise be visible to the general public; and when the circumstances set forth in clause (i) or (ii) are otherwise such that the person being videotaped, photographed, filmed or otherwise recorded would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The law here applies based upon the victim's
expectation of privacy, not on who owns or legally resides in a place.
Obviously, this is a Virginia law, and has no bearing on the case in New Jersey, but the point is that you are wrong: you do not have the right to videotape someone, even if they're on your property, in the circumstances given in the statute.