There are very small cameras and car based DVR systems. I’ve seen those and they arent that expensive. The problem is getting the data uploaded in near real time. That requires a cell phone.
My plan is to start recording if an event starts and then hope I can press stop before I lose the phone. Once stop is pushed they would have to turn the phone off or destroy it within a couple minutes to prevent the data transfer.
Right! As a base need, we should have a circular buffer camera loop running in our vehicles that records continually at all times we are driving, say a 30-minute loop that begins to over-write the prior recorded data every 30 minutes, unless some trigger says to record until manually stopped.
Now if that unit could also support a BT connection to a cell phone as purely an image or video capture sensor, we got it. No matter what happens to the phone, the data is secure. The systems are nearly in place in cars now, with the BT connectivity, but the routing of data to a secure or at least inaccessible storage (a nice unknown and hard-to-get flash drive) is lacking. All we need to do is to get the data out of the phone and out of reach of an LEO. The system (cell could be a redundancy) should be unknown to most people, and at least the LEO.