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Idaho Security Camera Laws: Home, Business, and Surveillance Rules (2026)

Independently fact-checked against primary sources (last audited November 1, 2026). · Reviewed by the RecordingLaw editorial team. · Law checked current as of November 1, 2026. · 4 primary sources cited on this page. How we verify our legal content

Idaho Security Camera Laws: Home, Business, and Surveillance Rules (2026)

Updates

Added the degrading-or-abusing purpose that Idaho Code 18-6605(2) also covers wherever the page described the hidden-camera felony.

Reworded camera-placement rules to match Idaho's video voyeurism statute, which makes a hidden camera in a private place a felony when used for a sexual purpose.

We clarified that Idaho's video voyeurism law requires a sexual purpose (other cameras in private areas can still lead to a civil privacy claim), removed advice that posting a sign makes audio recording lawful, corrected the drone statute's written-consent, publishing and exception rules, and replaced an unsupported short-term-rental camera disclosure law with a note that the rules come from rental platforms.

Independently fact-checked against the cited primary sources; governing law re-checked for recent changes

Independently fact-checked against the cited primary sources; governing law re-checked for recent changes

Corrected the description of penalties under Idaho's drone surveillance statute: violating it creates only a civil cause of action with a $1,000 statutory-damages floor, not a criminal misdemeanor or jail time.

Governing law re-checked for recent changes

Reviewed and approved by an editor

Sources and References

  1. Idaho Code 18-6605 - Video Voyeurism(legislature.idaho.gov).gov
  2. Idaho Code 18-6702 - Interception and Disclosure of Communications(legislature.idaho.gov).gov
  3. Idaho Code 21-213 - Unmanned Aircraft Systems(legislature.idaho.gov).gov
  4. Idaho Code 18-6709 - Civil Remedies for Illegal Interception(legislature.idaho.gov).gov
  5. 18 U.S.C. 2511 - Federal Wiretap Statute(law.cornell.edu)
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