For everyone saying that the parents may have a reason, I am 13 and have had cams in my room forever. I've never done anything even remotely bad enough to catalyst this invasion. She also gets all my texts through email, gets all my emails, and has such insane distrust for me that she won't even let me have Wikipedia.

As long as you're distracted with the camera kerfuffle, you won't notice all the sound recorders she's hidden.

Masterbate infront of the camera or just get naked and she is now guilty of creating child pornography. If it uploads to a cloud server, she is now distributing child pornography.

Good that you put them down, that's very disrespectful of your mother, even if she meant no harm.

The best way to loose the trust of your children's, do they also have a camera in your bedroom, they probably will be more shocked than what you spy on...... I have a daughter teenager and I will NEVER do this, we trust each other, have no secrets and that is gold.

She could get in really serious trouble legal trouble if there is video of you changing or masturbating. Very inappropriate.

I would have ripped that thing down, stomped it to bits on the floor, then wait for her to question me on it.

If the camera captures footage of a child or teenager changing clothes, that is illegal, it’s child pornography.

You have no privacy in my house. But it's not right to put camera in a bedroom its just wrong and creepy.

My parents are very strict and overprotective. Im 15 and I am not aloud to date, have a phone, be with friends, go to dances, field trips and more. I have anxiety/stress and I am highly sensitive

Somebody clearly doesn't understand how to build trust.

I personally might just cover it with paper and duct tape. And if it were taken off, I would just cover it again.

just NOT okay

The child is 26 year's old who won't move out. The reason for the cameras are because of how he makes his money. Yet he has a job at a cemetery he steals jewelry from fresh graves and all sorts of little investments he collects like Desert Storm trading cards. Also he returns "As Seen on TV knives" he didn't buy to Handy World for the reason of not being sharp enough to cut cans. WYI the a major loophole in the Handy World return policy is that they permit returns without receipts on items below $40.

gross the kid should talk to tha police

I'd be regularly smearing peanut-butter on the lens ... or taking them down and selling them at the p**n store!

Wow your mom sounds like a Narcissist. Get away from her as soon as you can.

In a bedroom, just like a loo, you have every possible expectation of privacy. Child, teenager or adult. This puts the adult in the class somewhere between paedos and peeping toms - illegal any way you look at it. This is s**t you just don't do... For small kids and toddlers, the audio monitor or popping your head in is ok, but after that?

I would have just put a pic of a nut sack on the lens and then got ready to relish the screams.

Just hang a shirt over the camera. Or, put nail polish on the lens.

i would never spend time in that room

If you don't want your child to be home alone, then stay home or make other arrangements. Spy cameras are not the answer.

Where's the privacy? Over protective?

why taking them down. It would have been taking 10 seconds to print a photo from the phone taken from the same angle and fix it in front. Room is always empty, maybe you're not watching while I pass in front, mom.

If I were the child, I would tear down that CCTV with a sling hahaha!

Wow...

Meh...my house, my rules. I haven't done this, but if my kids made me that suspicious, I would.

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You don't know what he might have been doing to freak her out that much. Politeness vs safety. I don't know what he expected by sharing this online. I doubt a bunch of random ppl online would change her mind about protecting her son from whatever spooked her in the first place

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What prompted the mother to do this? If the kid is using drugs or torturing the cat or having wild parties or, etc, this could be a perfectly reasonable step. I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt it's illegal to put cameras in your own house. Lots of people put security cameras in their house that will routinely see what other members of the family are doing. I would be quite surprised to learn that that is illegal.