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Mobile Minutes: Facebook's anonymity app; iPhone impacts insurance; Microsoft protects student data; HTC fading

Facebook may soon launch an anonymity app, but is it too late?
Facebook is working on a standalone app that would allow users to communicate anonymously, similar to existing apps like Whisper and Secret, according to a new report.
Read more on Wired

How iPhone apps could impact your insurance
As part of Apple's new mobile operating system, developers can build apps that measure things like heart rate, sleep, weight and blood pressure. If users choose to do so, they can then send that information to doctors for medical advice.
Read more on CNNMoney

Microsoft and other firms pledge to protect student data
A week after California enacted a landmark law restricting the ways education technology companies can use the information they collect about elementary through high school students, a group of leading industry players is pledging to adopt similar data protections nationwide.
Read more on New York Times

HTC is fading fast and an action camera and Nexus tablet can't save it
Tomorrow, beleaguered smartphone company HTC will launch an action camera in New York. It?s called the RE Camera, it already has a website and Twitter account. The only correct response to hearing that news is, as far as I can tell, ?WHAT??.
Read more on Forbes