On: How the Golden State Killer was found: A covert op...

[wil421]

What else did the police do with your DNA? Was it logged forever in a government database? Can they use what they harvested for other things?

I’d be tempted to volunteer myself but I’d have to read the fine print. In this day and age my DNA is probably the only private thing I have left.

[Fnoord → wil421]

See my other comment. The harvesting was done as a last resort, and the promise was that the data would only be used for this case, and that it'd be destroyed afterwards. Also, nobody was a suspect.