WiFi SD cards

Photographers in particular often face the problem that their newly captured images are stored unencrypted on their camera’s SD cards until they can transfer them to encrypted hard drives once they are back at their laptops. Added to this is the problem that storage media such as SD cards, USB sticks, and SSDs are very unreliable or even impossible to delete securely if the data on them was unencrypted.

So-called Wi-Fi SD cards can help in solving this issue. Like normal SD cards, they are simply inserted into the camera’s SD card slot. However, they do not actually store any images. Instead, they are connected to a mobile phone via Wi-Fi (direct) using an app and send every image taken immediately to the mobile phone. Since your phone is (ideally) encrypted, the data is then better protected.

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