Yes.
You can modify or delete.
A few years back I was using a phone and hadn’t gone through settings to turn off gps.
Discovered my mistake and used a batch command to remove gps from the photos.
It is my understanding that the GPS meta data is not with the photo settings and related data.
When I looked at the photos a few days ago, I saw nothing but the GPS data version. Not convinced, I downloaded a Linux command line tool for batch processing. Found that the data was in fact not on my photos.
Over the years, I’ve become much more concerned about this type of issue. Technology can be used for good or bad. It is so prevalent that it is frightening.
Found it, here it is, the command line tool that I used years ago to clean up image data in windows. It’s “Jhead” http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/usage.html