People born after 1981 are likely to have different standards for online privacy than those born earlier, according to the chief executive of Loopt, a geolocation app. 

“The magic age is people born after 1981," said Sam Altman in a New York Times article. “That’s the cut-off for us where we see a big change in privacy settings and user acceptance.”

The Bush administration ignored multiple warnings and allowed White House e-mails that were supposed to be preserved to vanish forever, according to a new report from a transparency watchdog.

Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released the report Monday after settling a 2007 lawsuit against the Bush administration last year for losing millions of e-mail messages that were supposed to be archived under the Presidential Records Act.

As part of the settlement, the Obama administration agreed to audit the backup tapes for the period in question and release thousands of previously withheld documents, which CREW claims demonstrate the Bush administration willfully ignored problems with its e-mail records retention system.

“A democratic system of government requires transparency. But the Bush administration prided itself on keeping secrets from the American people, ignoring federal records laws requiring White House e-mails be preserved for future generations," said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s Executive Director.

"E-mails that might shed light on our nation’s recent history — including records created in the lead up to the U.S. war in Iraq — have been wiped away.”

The proliferation of apps and the growth of the mobile Internet are fundamentally changing how people access data online, author Clay Shirky said Sunday in an interview.

Mobile applications are dramatically altering the browse-and-search habits that have previously ruled Internet use, he said. 

Shirky cited a "move away from this completely general-purpose browser — the most general-purpose platform literally in the history of the software industry — toward these very specific apps that are custom designed to a purpose." 

Shirky is a New York University lecturer, the author of six books on the Internet, and a "Web guru." (He does "not like the term, but you know, whatever," he told CNN interviewer Fareed Zakariah.)

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Rep. Cooper, Secretary Locke to attend piracy talk in Nashville with recording industry leaders. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will focus on intellectual property enforcement on Monday, touring Music Row in Nashville, Tenn., with members of the recording industry. He is there for a discussion of how the music industry is affected by piracy. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, will join him for the discussions. Cooper said the music piracy should be a focus for the government because only "an estimated one of 20 songs [is] purchased legally.” (Update: Press were permitted).

Google plans pay-per-view films. Google's YouTube site is in talks with major Hollywood movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, according to the Financial Times. The development would increase its competition with Apple to lead the market for digital video distribution. Sources told the FT that Google has been pitching the studios on the "international appeal of a streaming, on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube." Said one executive: “Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs — more than any cable or satellite service.” He added, “They’ve talked about how many people they could steer to this ... it’s a huge number.” http://bit.ly/azDVzJ

Indian officials to meet Monday to decide BlackBerry ban. Indian officials will meet on Monday to decide whether to ban some BlackBerry services in India, according to the AP. "RIM is facing widespread concern over its strong data encryption, which is beloved by corporate customers eager to guard secrets but troublesome for some governments in the Middle East and Asia, which worry it could be used by militants to avoid detection," the article says. A decision may come as soon as Monday. http://yhoo.it/9i2Hzg

100 percent — The increase over the last year in the number of Americans ages 65 and older who use social-networking sites. The number rose 13 percent to 26 percent, according to a Pew study released Friday. http://bit.ly/9nplQA

Social media use by older Americans has soared in the last year, according to a report released Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The use of social networking sites by Internet users ages 50 to 64 grew by 88 percent over a year period ending in May. That's up from 25 percent to 47 percent.

For those ages 65 and older, social networking grew 100 percent, rising from 13 percent to 26 percent.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is known for posting frequent and often candid messages on his Twitter account for nearly 20,000 followers.

The Pentagon unit in charge of advanced research projects has chosen two companies to build a vehicle that can capable of both driving and flying, according to a report from Popular Mechanics.

According to the report the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is in negotiations with Lockheed Martin and AAI Corp., a division of Textron Systems, to proceed with the next stage of the Transformer project. The goal is build a fully automated four-person vehicle that can drive like a car but take off like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs. The total project budget is about $40 million

AAI's submission reportedly includes a rotor like a helicopter that allows it to take off vertically. Lockheed's submission combines elements of the Joint Tactical Light Vehicle, a successor to the Humvee, with a ducted fan propulsion system that enables it to fly.

Google said it expects the Department of Justice to scrutinize its proposed acquisition of a company that makes software to search for airline pricing and ticket information for potential antitrust implications.

Google announced earlier this month it plans to purchase ITA Software, which makes an airfare search engine and pricing system used by many airlines and online travel sites, for $700 million in cash. Google said it plans to build new tools to make it easier to search and compare airfares.

But the search giant's entry into the highly competitive online travel market has also raised concerns. Google senior product manager Andrew Silverman said his firm received a "second request" for information from the Department of Justice indicating the government will review the deal, according to a blog post published Friday.

"While we think this acquisition will benefit travelers as well as those seeking their business, we know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google's success, and we said that we wouldn’t be surprised if there were a regulatory review before the deal closes," Silverman wrote.

Much of Silicon Valley heard from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Friday, but not in a friendly, checking-in sort of way.

The billionaire filed suit against 11 major companies over patents, claiming the companies are using technology developed in a now-shuttered lab that he ran during the Internet boom, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The companies include Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and Google's Youtube subsidiary. There was no suit against Microsoft, where he is a major investor.