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Over recent years, countless private security cameras have appeared in our neighbourhoods, as surveillance tech has become cheaper, better and much more easily accessible.

Professor McDonald headed up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era in 2014.

When it comes to surveillance devices, people now have access to video, sound, night vision and infrared, and the laws are spotty across Australia.

Every time the claimants went into the backyard, their neighbour's camera and lights would come on automatically and film their activities, which they believed interfered with the enjoyment of their land.

It amounted to an old crime called watching and besetting, and it was held that the action of nuisance was made out again," Professor McDonald explains.

"Generally speaking, if somebody has a camera [looking] onto a public street for security purposes, or to capture unpleasant behaviour … there wouldn't be an objection," Professor McDonald says.

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