Source: have done similar hobby projects for fun, which turned out to be illegal.
Source: have done similar hobby projects for fun, which turned out to be illegal.
It is. Check your jurisdiction.
Who's talking about that?
Almost nowhere (or actually nowhere?) are you allowed to set up a surveillance device into a space that is not public and it is not owned by you.
Obv. IANAL and this is not legal advice.
Wrong. They're state property, you even wrote it there.
>Obv. IANAL
Obv.
If you're on someone else's property, they can of course set any number of rules, and trespass those who break those rules. But even there, recording people, if against the rules, is still not a crime. The crime is trespass, if this journalist we're speaking of sticks around after being trespassed off the property.
Meanwhile in reality: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....