The revelations are likely to heighten debate about genetic privacy and the self-policing models of testing companies, as well as law enforcement access. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer - by harnessing genetic technology already in use by millions of consumers to trace their family trees.īut the DNA-matching effort that caught one of America’s most notorious serial killers was more extensive than previously disclosed and involved covert searches of private DNA housed by two for-profit companies despite privacy policies, according to interviews and court discovery records accessed by The Times. The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.
