Wish it wasn’t there. No idea what’s using it. Maybe something to do with new Unity analytics info they gather (even though I’ve chosen to disable stats from being collected)?
There are several threads about this issue, this is one…
I decided to reimport my projects in Unity 5.0 which does not automatically add the permission. I do not want to release a game for kids with this permission. It was not fixed in 5.1.1 and the latest patch release 5.1.1p1,