[LorenPechtel]

I do not think it's a good rule because it means you can't set up any sort of security camera that can see off your property. No dashcams to accurately point the blame for the accident. And unless you have a very high mounting point you can't even point them at your own property because they'll catch other things.

[immibis]

That's correct. Security cameras that see off your property are illegal and you WILL go to prison for having one. Why do you think you need one?

I think there's an exception for dashcams. Might still be illegal to publish recordings. Not sure.

You can put shutters on a camera so it can't see off your property.

Also you have to tell people they're entering a video surveilled area before they enter that area. Or else you go to prison.

[LorenPechtel]

Shutters don't work unless you have a very high vantage point. Consider the most forgiving camera I have--pointing west from not very far from the east edge of my property, it's angled such that the top of the frame is horizontal and the edge of the frame is parallel to the house. The maximum range I would realistically want to see a face is about halfway across my property from the location of the camera. Put a shutter to cut off the neighbor and I also cut off the head of someone approaching my front door. To make it work the camera would need to be at least 12' in the air--which would mean fastening it to air.

Fancier cameras can have filters on the motion sensor (which I wish I had--mine wasted too much recording time on the wind moving a tree), but you can't exclude the area.