Toilet technology has soared to completely new territory as Stanford scientists have sought to provide the common populace with a more direct way of monitoring their health, that being through the tracking of their defecation and urination.
Researchers at the university published a paper detailing a technology that would track a person’s urination and defecation over time and then send data to the cloud in order for it to be analyzed for the sake of health, with the system planned to be added to smart toilet technology.
The complete and utter violation of privacy that is the “Precision Health Toilet” has four specific cameras fixated on its being, one for stool, one for the user’s anus, and two “uroflow” cameras – they then permit the toilet to “analyze users’ urine and [classify] stool according to the Bristol stool form scale using deep learning[.]”
Two-factor authentication is used so that the anal evacuation is rightfully matched with the correct individual (if more than one person uses the toilet) by way of a fingerprint scanner embedded in the flushing lever and an “analprint scan”.
Co-author Dr. Seung-min Park provided some input on the invasive device in a blog post:
“The potential for using the human anus as a biometric identifier is not a new concept. The famous painter, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), had already figured out that the anus has 35 or 37 creases, which are as unique as fingerprints.”
It has also been assured that the user’s data is not trapped within the confines of the toilet ready for hackers to do with as they please, as it is sent to the cloud for analysis:
“All collected data (images and videos), in their raw data formats, were annotated with respect to the user and transmitted to a cloud system through wireless communication.”
Dr. Seung-min Park expressed that privacy is a significant priority for the advanced fecal collector, and that photos of the user’s anus are “encrypted by a hash function and stored on a secured device”:
“We unconditionally ensure the security of all photos and private information of our users are enforced through end-to-end encrypted data transmission. We have employed a template matching algorithm to determine the region of interest (anus), which once fully developed and validated, will be autonomous without any human interaction.”
The study concluded by claiming that the technology will aid in bringing awareness to relevant disorders such as prostatic hyperplasia, irritable bowel syndrome, and urinary tract infections:
“This toilet system is expected to have a major impact on health monitoring research,” concludes the study, “as the toilet enables longitudinal monitoring of human health with minimal interference of human behavior.”
To think someone actually wasted their time making this stupid thing.
Stanford gets enough “donations” to waste time and make stupid things
the science of wasting time
Say that again in 20-30 years when your health goes down the shitter.
Someone in China’s dictatorship just jizzed in his pants thinking about the possibilities.
Poop doesn’t contain enough blind patriotism; to the gulag with you.
Hackers can enjoy all the time looking at people’s butts.
Analprint scan???? Hahahahaha!!
Poop analytics
Isn’t any info that is not profitable?
The future is so full of surveillance
Some of them have been using smartband and smartwatch that monitor your body to make profit with insurance and the like. I would expect this to be the same but worse because now they have more solid evidence and information to make a profit and exploit.