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I am leaving Verizon Wireless due to this issue and many more. I have spent some time going through the bloat ware that Verizon forces on all of the android devices they sell. It is sickening. I can no longer support android as they don't respect your freedom. Android needs to have as part of its licensing agreement a statement that says it is not ok for carriers to install and force features into the android os that the end user can not remove. We all need to start fighting this. This is unacceptable. We need to start standdizing these devices to accept whatever mobile os we want to onstall. Ubuntu phone is on its way to solving these issues. Verizon has no respect for your privacy. They have applications on your phones to setup remote listening and remote viewing of your cameras. It's on all of them. IOS does this as well. For those who can't give up the phone and leave Verizon just disable the mysterious vzw app. Disable anything possible that you don't know what it is.
