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>>dsr12+(OP)
This is great for some situations. However, my personal policy is to upload my protest content to Google Photos asap (if appropriate). This makes sure your content is off your device if your phone gets confiscated AND it provides (be it thin) layer of authenticity/validation of the content.

>>cowmix+S2
Google Photos isn't going to provide you with any authenticity claims, and metadata gets scrambled by both their "high quality" and "original" settings.

If you want to make sure the actual, original image gets stored safely on another device automatically, use SyncThing or Resilio Sync.

>>mceach+Mc
> metadata gets scrambled by both their "high quality" and "original" settings.

This is NOT true, at least for the "original" setting. Upload an image, download it again - the checksums are identical.

If you modify the time/date or add comments within Google Photos, that new information is kept in a .json file instead of the exif data, but Google NEVER modifies the original photo if you select "original" quality.