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by carbocation 4931 days ago
It would be trivial to figure out who you really are once enough relatives sign up.
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The point is to avoid casual easy association via a name/address lookup, not defend against in-depth analysis from entities that know everyone in real life and in the database.

Plus, you could be an unmentioned adopted-out person, which would look identical, so they couldn't prove it was you without further examination.