This week's round-up is a doozy. You've been warned.

• Democrat Governor of California Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have required police to get a warrant before searching a cell phone incident to an arrest. Boo, Governor. Big boo.
• An ICE data-mining program pushed to states and local police was changed without doing a privacy impact assessment, which is against the law. The program aims to connect seemingly disparate events or people in order to search for crimes investigators aren't aware of.
• The GAO has a new report out on data-mining among federal government agencies at DHS. The title should explain the watchdog's conclusion: "DHS Needs to Improve Executive Oversight of Systems Supporting Counterterrorism." Deeper analysis forthcoming in this space.
• You think Google and Facebook know a lot about your life? Just wait until Siri gets ahold of you via iPhone. The thing will be constantly listening to everything you say, and likely sending that data back to Apple. Oy.
• The WSJ on a judge who is leading the charge against secret third party orders. And here's a story about how these secret orders occur in real life.
•  With sexy sounding titles like "Analytic Tools for the Study of Group Behavior," "Multi-Modal Biometrics," "Social Network Analysis for Community Resilience," and "Readiness Optimization 'Brain Music,'" DHS continues to obsess over the latest technological developments and their applications to domestic monitoring in this DHS "Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division" slides presentation.
• The Brookings Institution has identified 606 examples of government interference in internet use globally since 1995. The majority of those operations occurred in democratic countries. (via TechInsider)
• Oops. Neighbors of the man the FBI is accusing of a very, very difficult to believe "plot" to kill the Saudi ambassador said that they thought maybe something fishy was going on when "FBI Van1" popped up on their available WiFi networks list. Good job, FBI. Keeping it stealth.
• The German states have infected the computers of an unknown number of people with spyware capable of recording keystrokes and taking images surreptitiously. Creepy.
• Also, US surveillance technology is being deployed to spy on protesters in Syria. But the EU is cracking down on technology sales to repressive regimes. The US has a law on the books preventing sales of police technology to China dating back to the early 1990s. But as Naomi Klein has found, whatever about that.
• More on something we've discussed here: the FBI accelerates its roll-out of biometrics nationwide.