Obama’s state department violates Spain’s law and posts pics of Spain Prime Minister’s family to its Flickr page

During last week’s reception for visiting foreign dignitaries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Obama appeared almost as a cut out photo, looking exactly the same in over 130 photos taken with guests, that were eventually posted to the State Department’s Flickr page. One of the photos taken and posted was with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his wife Sonsoles Espinosa, and two daughters, Laura, 16, and Alba, 13. One problem though with posting these publicly. According to Yahoo, Spanish law prohibits the kids of their Prime Minister to appear in media. So once again, Obama offends another leader of a country thats considered one of our allys

Included was a shot of the Obamas posing with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his wife Sonsoles Espinosa, and two daughters, Laura, 16, and Alba, 13, who’ve never had photographs of themselves published previously in print or online due to a Spanish law prohibiting the media from doing so. The photo of Zapatero and his family with the Obamas was quickly removed from Flickr at the request of the Spanish government but still lurks online (in the shot seen here their faces are blurred). The flap is adding concerns on the issue of the privacy of world leaders’ children in the digital age.

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September 28, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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