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GreyAvenger
Guest
To any concerned:
My issue is centered on my right to privacy. I am currently a ranter who is living in a furnished basement of my landlord's home. It is my firm belief that he is watching me through the use of several different types of surveilance. One device is letting him monitor what channels I watch on my television, and another device (camera) can look onto my computer screen as I am typing this message. He can read it well enough to tell what web address I am on because I can overhear him discussing the details of how he and his wife should deal with me. I have confronted him about my concern of being under some kind of surveilance and his response was that he had no idea what I was talking about.
Please note that my landlord works for the Illinois Dept. of Corrections as a probation officer, and has an unmarked car, laptop with ability to do instant checks on cars and drivers licenses, and GPS surveilance equipment for use on his parollees. I should also say that I am just a renter, and am in no other way connected to his job.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that he is clearly overstepping his boundries and that my confronting him has had no effect to deter him. I have let him know that I will seek legal advice, but it has not served to deter him in any way.
If I want to take him to court, what evidence must I have, and how do you recommend I go about gathering it? I have a roommate who is less concerned because the landlord is his brother-in-law (thus the landlord's wife is his sister).
Any recommendations regarding non-legal action are also welcome. I just expect to know where my privacy begins and ends, and with their surveilance I feel I am always being watched--even now!
My issue is centered on my right to privacy. I am currently a ranter who is living in a furnished basement of my landlord's home. It is my firm belief that he is watching me through the use of several different types of surveilance. One device is letting him monitor what channels I watch on my television, and another device (camera) can look onto my computer screen as I am typing this message. He can read it well enough to tell what web address I am on because I can overhear him discussing the details of how he and his wife should deal with me. I have confronted him about my concern of being under some kind of surveilance and his response was that he had no idea what I was talking about.
Please note that my landlord works for the Illinois Dept. of Corrections as a probation officer, and has an unmarked car, laptop with ability to do instant checks on cars and drivers licenses, and GPS surveilance equipment for use on his parollees. I should also say that I am just a renter, and am in no other way connected to his job.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that he is clearly overstepping his boundries and that my confronting him has had no effect to deter him. I have let him know that I will seek legal advice, but it has not served to deter him in any way.
If I want to take him to court, what evidence must I have, and how do you recommend I go about gathering it? I have a roommate who is less concerned because the landlord is his brother-in-law (thus the landlord's wife is his sister).
Any recommendations regarding non-legal action are also welcome. I just expect to know where my privacy begins and ends, and with their surveilance I feel I am always being watched--even now!