These "officials" respond to cameras like vampires respond to a crucifix. Best to have several. If you take a pic of one on your cell phone, IMMEDIATELY send it to a friend (or preferably your lawyer) before they have a chance to intimidate you into deleting it.
We really need an app which can be used to take a pic and send it to a pre-set destination in one click.
Dropbox (a free cloud storage service) has a free app (for iphone or android) that does this. One of it's features is "Camera Upload". You can set it to automatically save any pictures you take on your phone to your cloud storage and it will sync that photo to any other device you choose to access Dropbox from. This is all done seamlessly using your phones normal camera function.
I use this service and it is fantastic. My two home computers and my two different cell phones are all linked together on my Dropbox account and any photo I take on my phone is almost instantly available to any other device. It's also great for storing other files you might want to access anywhere. I have documents, videos, photos, music and even a few installable programs saved to my Dropbox.
Even if your phone is "confiscated" and they are savvy enough to delete any photo from your Dropbox, you can access your Dropbox from any other device and undelete it. You can also unlink that phone from Dropbox preventing them from accessing your Dropbox at all.
Here you go: www.dropbox.com.
I have had a similar idea to that. I am far too tech-ignorant to know how to set it up but here are three things I would like to see in such an app.
1. Send an e-mail alert to whoever you choose to network with.
2. Live stream any video you send on a website set up for same.
3. Store a copy of everything on a remote and secure database.
“We really need an app which can be used to take a pic and send it to a pre-set destination in one click.”
I’ve been mulling over writing something similar. You’ve got a good variant there, will consider.