Can I hang a camera on my balcony?

Question

CCTV

Good day! I have a small regional Internet portal: news, a forum, online transport and all sorts of other goodies for a suburban area.
Now I decided to hang an online camera on the balcony and bring it to the site (without recording, only real-time broadcast).
The balcony itself is located on the 15th floor among the 16-storey buildings. The frame will show part of the far-standing (about 100 meters) opposite house, part of the street with a parking lot and, most importantly, views of the fields / sky and very distant houses (about a kilometer).
Hence the question. Is it allowed to place a camera on the balcony, what are the legal restrictions in my situation and everything else. Who faced? Thank you.

Answer 1

You are doing a non-business thing.
The country is not specified, but I will assume that Russia.
In the Russian Federation, it is not the Law that rules, and not even Law Practice, but the norms of execution. This is typical for all structures with manual control (for example, for OOO "Romashka" with a boss-tyrant who wraps the same rule this way and that).
The norm at this moment is as follows: if the Citizen does not violate the violations and does not rock the boat, everything is OK. As they wrote a little higher - "there is no corpus delicti". However, if the boat is rocked by another Citizen (for example, a granny from the second entrance will write that your camera interferes with Malakhov’s transmissions or someone gets excited that the camera monitors his immunity) - something needs to be done. Either answer the second Citizen with a refusal ("there is no corpus delicti") or come to you. If two options come, they will either collect the correct explanations and dump them or ask them to take them off. They can’t force them to take it off, but in theory they can get it by other methods (hardly in practice).
So, the path of least resistance is to score and hang. They will come - write the correct explanations (the camera does not write, it is needed to monitor personal property - only this way, nothing more), politely refuse to shoot (I can’t take it off - my legs are sick, but I like to look at personal property).
The worst thing that will happen will have to be removed. They won't even take it away.

Answer 2

Allowed. In Russia, there is a very small list of places and events that cannot be filmed.
What's more, it's just common sense to have a camera pointing at your car's parking space.

Answer 3

dummyman a priori
There are no restrictions at all. Firstly, the 15th floor (from this distance, in principle, it is impossible to identify a person if it is not a camera with zoom to a specific place and autofocus), and secondly, the person does not plan to record, but only broadcast, so no "you are being filmed by a hidden camera" is not needed here . The only thing is that sensitive objects should not be in the field of view of the camera, although the Internet is already full of recordings of sensitive objects

Answer 4

You can use the camera, but either a healthy outdoor one (which would be noticeable from a kilometer away), or, if it is small, you definitely need a sign "you are being filmed by a hidden camera." True, it may not be possible to broadcast to the media, but the DVR should simply a priori save the last 2-3 days.

Answer 5

The practice of huge popularity and the widest distribution of webcams in the Internet space, as well as many services for connecting your own and including its video stream in some thematic list, show that there is no direct crime here. Actually, the very content of this video, open for public viewing, will be evidence of whether there are violations here or not.
In the event of a claim, you can simply write it down and present it at the resulting disassembly.