Subj : *Never Turn Your Back on Big Tech! Facial Recognition... for your
To   : Jay Harris
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Sep 28 2021 20:16:00

Hello Jay!

 JH> So the science is sounds it seems.  The "smart toilet" you
 JH> originally posted about seems to be moving that technology
 JH> indoors to our very own porcelain thrones.

Unless developers install those things as "standard" toilets, I  
don't see them widely accepted.  They will need some kind of  
internet connectivity.. and with the (hopefully) growing  
concern about privacy and blanket statements like this:

" The smart toilet automatically sends data extracted from any  
sample to a secure, cloud-based system for safekeeping. "

  ..I don't see people trusting one manufacturer's claim to  
what is "secure".

Apparently it was initially designed to *just* use fingerprint  
technology on the flusher:

" One of the most important aspects of the smart toilet may  
well be one of the most surprising - and perhaps unnerving: It  
has a built-in identification system. "The whole point is to  
provide precise, individualized health feedback, so we needed  
to make sure the toilet could discern between users," Gambhir  
said. "To do so, we made a flush lever that reads  
fingerprints."

" The team realized, however, that fingerprints aren't quite  
foolproof. What if one person uses the toilet, but someone else  
flushes it? Or what if the toilet is of the auto-flush variety?

" They added a small scanner that images a rather camera-shy
part of the body. You might call it the polar opposite of
facial recognition. In other words, to fully reap the benefits
of the smart toilet, users must make their peace with a camera
that scans their anus."

Anyway.. the thing is so complex, something is bound to go  
wrong with it. I don't see people rushing to fix a broken  
camera that is built-in in the toilet.
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