Is CCTV risky?

[IamTheNew95]

Hi all i noticed in 1 hotel there is camera both ends of every floor and outside of the floor. My question is somebody watch the camera live? Or is there if someone report some thing. Is it dangerous to walking around and looking for action and record with your phone while there were CCTV? What is the actions they can take if u they saw on camera waiting outside of some room which is not yours so i can record some action?

[sndprv]

Hi all i noticed in 1 hotel there is camera both ends of every floor and outside of the floor. My question is somebody watch the camera live?
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Only in the more expensive hotels that have actual security staff.

If this hotel you saw didn't have security, then most likely only management staff would
have access to live CCTV footage and password access to recorded footage. But they would be
too busy doing other jobs to sit and watch CCTV footage, unless some incident occurred, in which
case they would need to play back recordings to obtain certain details that would have to be
included in an incident report. (This is called 'RIDDOR' in the UK.)

[physicist]

Hi all i noticed in 1 hotel there is camera both ends of every floor and outside of the floor. My question is somebody watch the camera live? Or is there if someone report some thing. Is it dangerous to walking around and looking for action and record with your phone while there were CCTV? What is the actions they can take if u they saw on camera waiting outside of some room which is not yours so i can record some action?

Low end chain hotels do not have someone monitoring security all the time. They just have cctv for recording in case there is an incident.

It is still advisable to get a hotel without cctv. Best want to avoid any problems.

[sndprv]

Low end chain hotels do not have someone monitoring security all the time. They just have cctv for recording in case there is an incident.

It is still advisable to get a hotel without cctv. Best want to avoid any problems.

Nowadays, almost every building that falls under the 'hotel' category has some form of CCTV
(in the front entrance, reception, bar areas, for example). The ones best to avoid are those
with cameras in the corridors.

Places where extra care is needed are the big summer holiday destination spots, where there
is always trouble due to rowdy, drunken behaviour. The staff are surprisingly very switched on
in these places, and there is closely monitored CCTV surveillance almost everywhere.

[physicist]

The ones best to avoid are those with cameras in the corridors.

This is what I meant also

I have sometimes seen hotels hire extra staff on the weekends to patrol the corridors