AITA for “performing” in front of the camera my mom forced me to have in my room?

[u/Xtwa]

I'm a 17-year-old guy, and my mom has always been a bit overprotective. Recently, she took it to the next level by insisting on putting a surveillance camera in my room "for my safety." I found it super invasive and uncomfortable, but she wouldn't take no for an answer.

So, in an act of defiance, I decided to jerk off right in front of the camera every day for a week. I figured if she wanted to invade my privacy, she'd have to deal with the consequences. I made sure to look directly into the camera, making it clear that I knew it was there and I didn't care.

After a week, my mom came to me, furious. She had finally watched the footage and saw what I'd been doing. She said she was absolutely disgusted, and yelled at me for being disrespectful and said I was acting like a child. I told her that if she wanted to invade my privacy, she had to be prepared for what she might see. She took the camera down immediately, but now she's giving me the silent treatment and acting like I'm the bad guy.

My dad thinks I went too far, and I think he secretly finds it funny, but he also agrees that having a camera in my room was too much. My sister won’t even talk to me anymore after my mom told her what I had done, but my friends think it's hilarious and say my mom got what she deserved. I'm not sure how to feel. AITA?

[u/concious_marmot]

Your mom absolutely got what she deserved. You are NTA though she may never admit that because, as she should be, she’s probably deeply ashamed of herself.

You genuinely deserve a prize for malicious compliance!

[u/LopsidedPalace → u/concious_marmot]

In my neck of the world this camera in her kuds bedroom thing is illegal and would have her sent to jail. She would likely become the registered sex offender, and CPS would be involved.

This behavior is abusive, controlling, and creepy. She deserves a whole lot more than being made mildly uncomfortable by the consequences of her actions.

[u/Useful_Language2040 → u/LopsidedPalace]

I was wondering about this!! It's obviously fundamentally wrong because crazy-invasive but she knowingly recorded in a child's bedroom in such a way that a reasonable person could expect to turn his normal personal activities into CP - and whaddaya know? 

I think I saw something a while back where a neighbour was very upset about somebody else's teen son walking around half-naked and recorded him through his bedroom window. She then showed it to the police because "the outrage! If you look into his bedroom through his window, you can see his exposed torso!" - and was arrested because he can wander around in a state of undress in his room and expect a degree of privacy. She cannot invade that privacy, record half-naked minors, expose other people to those recordings... 

[u/Free-oppossums → u/Useful_Language2040]

There is another one where a creepy neighbor put up security cameras and one was "accidentally" pointed into a girl's window. The girl's father ruined the camera so the neighbor called the police. The idiot showed the cops the footage where the father did it and got himself arrested because of all the footage of the girl getting dressed in her room.

[u/Pristine_Table_3146 → u/Free-oppossums]

I think it was the girl who destroyed the camera by shining a laser on the lens.

I remember that post. The neighbor went "radio silence" after the police and his wife got a look at hours of footage of the girl in her bedroom.