April 25, 2006
Pics of Swiss President vacationing jolt Swiss into awareness of the new snaparazzi
We're a little slow here. Yesterday Swiss daily newspaper Blick published a series of pictures of Switzerland's president, Moritz Leuenberger with his partner Gret Loewensberg, in their bathings suits on a beach in Oman. The picture was taken by a Blick reader who forwarded his snapshots to the daily and has created quite a stir, according to Lunch over IP.
Picking up the story, Le Temps commented "on the unstoppable evolution of citizen reporters camera phones and the Internet."
"Swiss president Leuenberger's spokesman said that the president may consider suing the newspaper; another daily, Tages-Anzeiger, suggested that he could bring up the issue in the next government meeting", writes Lunch over IP
Other than catching on (belatedly) to cameraphone reporters and the new snaparazzi, what is really at issue here is the violation of a public figure's private life - generally respected until now - brought on by new technology.
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