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VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY. WORK AT SEA VS WORK ON LAND
Arkadiusz KOŁODZIEJ1, Krzysztof TOMANEK2, Agnieszka KOŁODZIEJ-DURNAŚ3
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Keywords: video surveillance, pandemic, storytelling, seafarers, organizational sociology
Abstract One of the fundamental human rights guaranteed in Poland by the Constitution is the right to privacy. Respect for a person's private life can be analysed in different fields, within different relationships. We expect the right to our privacy to be respected both in our relationship with the state, in business relations and in the professional sphere. Access to our private life is also defined informally through the prevailing social relations in a given society, understood as a component of the social structure. In the practice of social life, however, the need to protect our privacy is confronted with other values such as security. In our article, we would like to present the results of qualitative research on video surveillance in the workplace. We pose the question of whether this increasingly common form of control, according to the respondents, threatens their privacy. In these analyses, we present the perspectives of two distinct professional spheres: office workers and seafarers. The indicated categories of respondents function in distinctly different work environments, which may affect the assessment of the risks posed by monitoring their behaviour.
Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0003-2302-5553
E-mail: Arkadiusz.Kolodziej@usz.edu.pl
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0003-1789-0006
E-mail: Krzysztof.Marcin.Tomanek@gmail.com
Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0003-0844-2869
E-mail: Agnieszka.Kolodziej-Durnas@usz.edu.pl