Ring Doorbells

[elsie]

I tried the question "are Ring doorbell cameras legal in france" https://perplexity.ai one of the artificial intelligence (AI) search tools and in summary the answer was:
France's interior minister has stated that only devices taking photos - not moving footage - are allowed if they point beyond a person's property. This means traditional video doorbells that record continuous video of public areas like streets are not permitted.
Photo-only doorbells: Doorbell devices that only take still photographs rather than video recordings can be used legally, as long as they comply with privacy laws
I've not posted more as it was a distillation of articles in ConnexionFrance, The Local and a discussion on another forum. It also mentioned Ring as a source but I couldn't immediately see anything on https://fr-fr.ring.com/ which stated the video doorbells were not allowed in France.

[MAD87]

As far as I know, you cannot site a camera so that it overlooks the public road.

[niemeyjt]

Yes - that was behind my question - given that most front doors open perpendicularly onto the street , making any doorbell camera adjacent to the door likely to film said street.

[MAD87]

I have a Jewish friend in Provence wh can't install a camera to spot who is cutting her electricity off at the streetside box (why can't they be electrocuted?), nor can she see who's putting unpleasant stuff in her postbox.

[Polarengineer]

She should set up a cheap wildlife track camera pointing at the cables and back to her front door to catch them, nothing permanent and something cheap.

[Hotrodder]

Or boobytrap the box to catch the swine. (Better warn the postie first though)