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This is exactly what I was thinking. I thought the whole point of Linux/Android/Open Source was to be more secure, but here this is obviously being broken by the service vendor.
Shouldn't there be an area in the programs menu that let's you check off the various phone components that the OWNER wants them to have access to? Sure the app may not work if it can't get to something it insists (whether in truth or not) it needs to work, but then I can just as easily remove an app that has shown it has alterior motives that I don't approve.

Seems to me that should be simple to do...