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I actually want to submit some other person's DNA to them, so it can be in the DB as mine. Would they notice this, assuming I find another <same race, same sex> person?

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Genetic data can be used to identify you, so although this trick may provide some obfuscation, ultimately it would place your identifiable information in the data base.

And if a close family member is in that data base, you would be identified immediately.

I think you misunderstand. GP's idea was not to submit their own DNA under someone else's name, but rather to submit someone else's DNA under their own name (as a decoy).

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