This is about as useful as a tank of gas with no car. Especially since courts have already determined that an IP address does not identify a person, rather a machine (pc, router, etc). As evidenced in articles such as these: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=109242 ; http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1522247/Judge-Rules-IP-Addresses-Not-Personally-Identifiable?from=rss & http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090708/1323075488.shtml I am sure there is more out there, but if we can't identify a person by IP, then why should I have to keep records of IP traffic for up to 2 years?

While I completely agree with your, points.. HTML5 Tools will not solve the problem.. Lazy "developers" who think they don't need to learn how to code in the first place being the basic fundamental problem in all aspects of popular web and application development.

a 16GB high capacity SD card is going for around $40 bucks these days. encript 15GiB of it and leave the rest for random photos. save you data on the encrypted partition and put it back in you camera. photos pull up, data is encrypted, and hardware is clean.