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While I can't make useful comments on protests or strong anonymity, wrt photo metadata, I can say that I scrub metadata from photos that leave my possession, as a matter of course, using 'exiftool'.

Here is how you read the existing metadata:

  exiftool -a -u -g1 IMG_0708.JPG | more

... and here is how you scrub it:

  exiftool -all= IMG_0708.JPG

(you could read it again, after scrubbing, to demonstrate it is gone ...)

>>rsync+(OP)
I've had this function added to my shell for years:

   stripexif () 
   { 
       exiftool -all= "$@"
   }

>>rsync+(OP)
ImageMagick's `convert` also supports stripping such metadata, the flag is -strip.

I nearly always scale+compress photos that leave my possession, and usually using convert, so adding -strip is a nice streamlined way of doing all at once.