# Wifi-Sd-Cards

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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.