: This is the primary legal standard. You cannot record areas where a person has a high expectation of privacy, such as bathrooms, bedrooms, or locker rooms—even if those rooms are in your own home and used by guests.
If you use cloud-based cameras, assume your footage is not truly private.
Most popular cameras (like Nest or Ring) ship your footage straight to the . It’s convenient, but it means your data lives on someone else’s server.