Why do neighbors spy

When the lines are blurred between sovereign state agents and those who deem themselves citizen spies, the consequences can be lethal. To feel like a cop. Following Foucault, Reeves emphasizes the emotional dimensions of lateral surveillance. Lateral surveillance has always been more of an ideological project than a practical form of intelligence.

The content of the tips is less important than the fact that people are eager to send them in the first place. Whether a hotline actually works is less important than whether people want to use it.

The same perverse impetus that mobilizes citizens to work as surrogates for the administration can also be channeled, Reeves points out, toward schemes for alternative governance in its stead. So too is the discovery of subversive attachments between ourselves —premised not on terror, but on solidarity. You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser and improve your visit to our site. Ava Kofman AvaKofman. If your neighbor is doing some of these things chances are that they really are stalking you.

Most of us have a routine. We leave the house at a certain time and come home at a specific time Monday through Friday. If your neighbor is always standing outside of their home by the time you get home from work, then you know for sure that they understand your routine. They will be outside consistently or looking through their window watching you park your car.

They also make comments about how you came home from work early etc. This is a good sign that they know your routine. This one is obvious. If you see them looking over your fence or staring at your yard a lot then you know that your neighbor is watching you. The exception to this rule is if they are outside doing yard work a lot.

This can be a seasonal thing. However, if they sit outside their house or watch your home from a window, then you know for certain that they are spying on you. No it is not against the law unless they are using some sort of telescopic equipment.

They can simply watch you through the fence or sit in their backyard and watch your yard without breaking any laws. If it concerns you then I would recommend bringing it up in casual conversation. If you like to go on long vacations, then you will want to make sure your home is prepared. A neighbor who is spying will ask when you are going out of town next through casual conversation. If they know that you are traveling they may want to try and get into the home while you are gone.

A good home security system may be your best bet to prevent anyone from coming inside of the home. You may have seen footprints in the snow, or notices that the grass has footprint marks in it. This is a good sign that someone had been on the property and is trying to get a closer look. Each of us likes to feel privacy, especially in our own backyard. There are few worse feelings than the feeling of being watched; it prevents one from fully enjoying one's home.

What should you do if you see a camera trained on your backyard? First, give your neighbor a chance to explain himself. Write a note, or knock on his door. Kill him with how polite you are when you approach: "I notice you seem to have a camera pointed right into my backyard!

I'm sure you didn't even realize, but would you mind pointing it elsewhere? Or perhaps this will be an opportunity for your neighbor to explain his apparent distrust. Does he mistakenly believe you stole something from him? Or does he mistakenly believe you are, or a member of your household is engaged in dangerous or illegal activities?

Use this conversation to address not just the camera itself, but to explore your neighbor's underlying intentions. Perhaps his conduct will make sense once he explains his rationale. If he does refuse to move the camera after the request or your invitation to dialogue, consider self-help options. Got CAD from my local police reports I have made. What else should be done. I just want my privacy back! Have you tried approaching the neighbors and asking them directly why they are interested in you?

Can you help me? I haven't seen any posts about software, but I hope you might know more than I do. I've stopped wondering why and after phoning shops I didn't know existed about detection devices and having searched and searched the internet, I'm almost certain what software is being used by my neighbors.

I've found 2 articles by researchers of the University of Washington about CovertBand software and it seems to fit the bill. However, both articles were published in and I wonder if you know of more recent publications or perhaps you have some other suggestions. I live in a small apartment and it all started with sleep deprivation by the way I'm the only operson targeted.

I won't go into furter details at this moment in time. However, from experience I now know that CovertBand software should never ever be misused and I'll keep on trying to find answers. It may just be harmless. Maybe the neighbor just likes you and doesn't really know how to make the first move or might be to shy to do so?

Of course, if you have a strong suspicion that something creepy is going on you'll have to take your precautions. If there are electronic devices, then you should be able to track them down and use them as proof. Take photos of them in situ before removing and disabling them.

The local police is willingly ignoring that problem. I assume that the landlord,who is a total psychopathic man, an ex-military who is obsess by the will to control everything,to manipulate everybody if this person is not doing what he wants. This man has criminal energy. So:All fits together. I am very sure that along the carpet right baove me are used illegally technical devices for eavesdropping.

What can I do to at least protect myself against the listening-in-devices which are used against me? Because I have rented the habitation I donnot own it , I am not allowed to do everything. Get proof, Marie. Then you can make a formal complaint.

They are helping people here, who they contacted the powers that be in the town. The reason being because there could be a harassment claim, so they lied to them to make me look back. I am afraid for my life. Who can help me during this pandemic.

Sorry, Flee, your comment is too long to post. Know that I have read it and sympathize with your predicament. If you have proof that all these devices have been planted in your home, then photograph them and go to the police. You should also bring in an IT expert who can advise regarding your wifi. Hi DRN, you have to get proof and then take it to the police. Install spy cameras in your home if you think they are coming onto your property. Our whole neighbor family is bonkers spy always doors open and sitting and watching us.

We have seen them glued to walls n doors to hear our conversation. Our movements and schedules are tracked. Our kid is home confined as I. My spouse says nothing can b done about the nuisance family. Our emails and phones act crazy and it's for sure our house is bugged. There have been robberies in our house expensive stuff,our clothes,footwear etc.

The whole family has that crooked weird look always. All this when they have been ignored by us since we moved. You haven't said how you are being monitored, and how you know it. The police won't do anything unless you have proof to show them. Before moving and I showed the property manager experience I was having at the prior Apartments she seemed very general stating that she would help me upon moving into the unit I found that I was being monitored I let it go for about a month and then I wouldn't toast nothing has been done it's been over 6 months and they still are honoring I want you to police they said there's nothing they can do tomorrow, news station what else do you suggest.

I couldn't approve your comment as this article is specifically about neighbors. However, you might find some useful information on the link I have offered to others here. I have neighbors stalking me they following me everywhere i think they hacking my phone and getting in some sort of speaker using my phone how can I prove this it has been going on for 5 months i don't know what to do.

Alana, hold a specific conversation about something that is made up. So, something like you are planning a vacation to an exotic destination, or you are thinking of breeding rabbits or anything that's a bit weird. When that comes back to you, you will know for sure. Record yourself having the conversation as well. How can i prove that my one nosy neighbor has been listening to us particularly me. She has been spreading nasty rumors around town to make me look terrible and recording my conversations and sending them to another nosy jealous cow.

They seem to get pleasure from my torment i have had enough. How can i get proof. Where can I purchase a bug sweeping device? I truly believe that my neighbor is listening inside our home. This has been going on for 10 years. I am at my wits end. Please any advice will be appreciated. Hi Dave, OK, well you don't actually know what they are doing because you aren't in the room with them. It's very possible that they being 'sat in silence and recording your calls' is not what is actually happening.

At the moment you have gifted your neighbors your own personal power. You are structuring your life and behavior around them. If you can prove they are recording your calls, then go to the police, otherwise live your life as if they weren't there. My upstairs neighbours are sat in silence, listening to my every move and are recording my telephone calls. As soon as i get up out of my chair all conversations upstairs stop and all ears on me.

They are making me ill and they know it. Yes, if they are on your property, Karen. If they aren't then make sure you install secure privacy screens, blinds or drapes. There are such devices, but the best way to find out is to test it by saying something untrue, like you've booked a cruise vacation or that a relative is coming to live with you. If that 'information' is repeated back to you, then you know that someone is listening.

Don't forget that the most common method is via a cell phone app. Can a listening device be used from inside a neighbor's home which is approximately feet away to listen inside my home?

I have concern that this action is going on. If this is possible, is there a detection device to prove this? Dora, you need to contact the police. I'm sure they would be interested if you reported a meth lab. I believe that I'm being not only stalked but in every since of the way video recorded while I'm in my own home and while I'm sleeping and doing everything I not only have moved due to these issues and they've just followed me but now I have an idea of who is doing this to me.

But now It's gotten worse, my landlord sold out to a realtor and the maintenance man is very buddy buddies with the people who I think are involved in doing this. Now here's where things get more scary for myself, every since I have moved above them I have heard someone walking around in the attic and no this is not an animal I can tell when the weight is that of a person as opposed to an animal.

And now I'm also smelling meth yes you heard me say it meth and one of the maintenance men also smelled it while inside my home working, I asked him if he smelled it and he said Yes. I think that the main maintenance guy is involved in all of this because he was right before all of this talking with the man who I think is involved in breaking into my house and video recording me and well God only knows what else to me.

But here's the screwed up thing there are so many people involved in this I just don't know who to turn to or trust anymore about this. And It's gotten to the point where I'm in fear of my own life.

They are the best people to ask about these issues. They will also be able to tell you if someone is interfering with your TV service. My upstairs neighbors were caught tampering with my satellite dish to interrupt the of signal to my receives to all 3 my TV's 8mths ago now they have resorted to using a device that works Thur the floors of their apt to turn off my TV's.

I never cut my tvs off for security reasons. I've cut them down so low you can barely here them. I have been reading some the posts, and have noticed things that people say, would have gotten you put in a mental ward, but I have most of the problems on the posts. Maybe, somebody will start to believe us now, because we can't all have the same nightmare.

People should be jailed for spying and stalking. Either my back neighbor or side neighbor or bottom neighbor is always harassing us or spying on us and listens to everything. I know my girlfriend knows about it or who it is but is afraid to say anything or tell me. Need some help thanks. I have no idea what to advise you, Jebediah. Perhaps you should bring the matter up at a community meeting?

I have a kind of strange case. I live on a commune of sorts, we are all farmers, people of the soil. Recently, I've noticed that one of my friends, a fellow farmer, watches me from behind a tree at night.

Every night before I go to bed I say goodnight to the moon and the stars. While I am performing this nightly ritual, I see this person peering out from behind a tree on our property. This person's gaze is intense and terrifying and this is affecting my sleep.

People say it as a joke, but I do actually have to sleep with one eye open. I'm also not sure if this is related, but some of the small crops that I grow carrots, kale are destroyed in the morning. It looks like human intervention as I know the signs of animal destruction. Sometimes I even smell urine and I have found traces of fecal matter. This is extremely upsetting as our community is very tight knit. I am at a loss and heartbroken. I live at 3rd floor in a building where the opposite building which is very close..

We live very thin wall and thin window building. They already collected information what we eat,when we sleep what is our life style We have that Gulls and corvids mostly. There would be no point in a device on the roof, it wouldn't be an effective location for it. The information provided was quite helpful Bev G. I am certain that one of my neighbors has a listening device on the roof of my house. For the past 12 years I have been hearing noises on my roof.

The noises are comparable to throwing a huge stone on a roof. I also have observed that the noises are heard most when i am talking. Can you advise me on how to resolve this. If you have proof of the existence of this device, you can report him for illegal bugging of your apartment. I have a neighbor who has a alarm system with a device to listen to other people's conversation in there apartment.

Is there a device that will interfere so he cant listen to our conversations. If we go outside on the back deck you can hear the neighbor close the door. I believe he has been listening to our personal conversations no matter day or night or the weather. Feel so violated. To Freda, if you think for one second I would allow you to post reams of people's personal identifying and contact details, you are sadly mistaken. Jennifer, I can't help you.

You are at the point where you need expert legal advice. Consult your attorney. They have left notes in my mailbox telling me I need to move to the mountains and find God and they have also done that with other neighbors. They know the dates that visitors have been here the color and model and make of the cars of the visitors that I have had here.

They are always peeking through their blinds every time we take her trash out go outside Etc. The neighbors that live directly across from them ended up having to put cameras out because they got sick of them constantly going through their mailbox. The few times I have spoke with them all they do is badmouth everybody in the neighborhood with their accusations of people being drug addicts and just basic bad mouthing.

They feed our dogs rawhide bones that results and the dogs throwing up having diarrhea uncontrollably inside and outside of our home. My husband and I have politely asked them to not feed our dogs anything and yet they continue to do it. And my daughter overheard my husband and I talking about that, and how it seems like there are poisoning our dogs; so my year-old left a note on their patio asking them again please not to feed our dogs and they proceeded to call the cops on my year-old for leaving a letter on their doorstep even though they have been known to leave anonymous letters to not only to my family but other neighbors in the neighborhood.

Now we have to go to court because I called the cops on them for yelling at the top of their lungs in front of all the children getting off of the school bus and their parents about my husband being a pedophile and a user on top of being a drug addict. Obviously these are false accusations and slander. Now they had cameras pointed directly at our house that they turn on every single time my husband and I go check the mail take the trash out or just hang out outside to enjoy the weather.

I was wondering if this is considered illegal or invasion of privacy or something along the lines of that. In two days they called the cops on us three times. The first one they tried to accuse my husband of domestic abuse against me which the cop said obviously there was no signs of domestic abuse. I did call the cops on them when they stood outside and slandered my husband not only in front of my daughter but all of our neighbors and we ended up getting a disorderly conduct ticket disorderly conduct tickets.

Our landlords have had the same issues when they lived here and now they want to sell the house due to the situation now we have to move. Is there anything we can do to prove that we are innocent in this or what other steps of action we can take? Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated.

The summons my husband received was a disorderly conduct 1A in the state of Colorado. Collect evidence of the harassment and take it to the police. My upstairs neighbor s follow me from room to room throughout my apartment when I'm home. When I'm sitting on the stall, someone from upstairs starts to constantly flush their toilet right above my bathroom.

This also, happens when I'm showering and blow-drying my hair. They're listening to my every move. If I stay up late, they stay in the same room listening and then follow me to me bedroom as I head to my bedroom for the night. Someone stays up listening. Also, upstairs neighbor kept knocking hard on their upstairs wall that right below one of our bedrooms in an attempt to wake us. This was ongoing. Apartment are in great condition and not in need of repairs as I checked with management.

Management said, the could be having sex for all we know, that I can prove nothing! Also, lots of ongoing phone calls on both cells and home phones.

Also, they listen as to when I leave my apartment. As soon as I leave my apartment, clusters of cars start coming down the street the crosses my apartment parking lot and cars start to follow me where-ever I go. I suspect tenant upstairs is given someone heads up when I leave my apart.

Also, I'm constantly being watched when I leave my apartment to go throw the trash out or get my mail Neighbor across from me has been coming out frequently at the exact same time as myself from my unit and when I get home and I'm parking he's right out front of our apartment building just watching as I park etc.

Property management has done nothing about my situation. Police have not helped either. I'm also, now being falsely accused of something I didn't do that was stated on a notice left on my doorway.

I don't know, if it's legal or not to take photos as evidence or if I can use my video camera while I'm parking or leaving my parking lot?