Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”:

But emails exchanged with Kohler’s privacy contact clarified that the other “end” that can decrypt the data is Kohler themselves: “User data is encrypted at rest, when it’s stored on the user’s mobile phone, toilet attachment, and on our systems. Data in transit is also encrypted end-to-end, as it travels between the user’s devices and our systems, where it is decrypted and processed to provide our service.” […]

And the privacy policy states data may be used “To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data, which we may use and share with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Kohler Health Platform and our other products and services, to promote our business, and to train our AI and machine learning models.”

Why would you want a toilet-cam, you almost certainly are asking. Their web site says:

Dekoda analyzes three vital areas: gut health, hydration, and the presence of blood in the bowl. Your gut health results fall into three categories: regular, hard, and loose. Your hydration status falls into one of two categories: hydrated or under hydrated. Each session unlocks deeper health insights that become the building blocks for healthy routines, notifying you if blood is detected in the bowl.

Cool, cool. It notifies you if you didn’t notice that you are shitting blood.

Training an AI model on literal shit is quite poetic though. Garbage in garbage out.

I’m not taking a shit, I’m unlocking deeper insights!

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