This was exactly my thought. Encryption doesn't inherently protect availability, and by far the more common occurrence (at least the stories I've heard, from in

This was exactly my thought. Encryption doesn't inherently protect availability, and by far the more common occurrence (at least the stories I've heard, from independent journos covering the US, or abroad in places like North Korea or China) is deletion. To the point where I was advised that, if I started shooting protests domestically, I should always carry a spare memory card (loaded with innocuous shots) and get good at discretely swapping them out. I think a bluetooth pairing with your phone that automatically synced shots, though a massive battery suck, would be a better option than satellite (and easier to package in the camera body; bluetooth units are tiny), and certainly more helpful than encryption. To be clear, I'm not saying encryption wouldn't be useful; I absolutely thing it would (and it's the business I'm in anyways, but for IoT and not cameras). But I think auto-sync has a much, much larger addressable market, and I think it also would have a larger immediate impact. You could also set it up such that the data is only stored on the camera until it is uploaded, and then immediately deleted, making it significantly more difficult for authorities to recover (if you zero the bits out properly, etc etc).