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A toilet camera that can analyze your poop isn’t as private as its marketing suggests. 😬 In October, Kohler Health announced the Dekoda, a $599 camera that hangs on the rim of your toilet and analyzes your stool and urine for potential health insights. Obviously, the product raised questions about privacy. However, Kohler designed the camera’s sensors to face downward and advertised the system as end-to-end encrypted, a term that often implies the provider can’t read the user’s data. But a former technology advisor to the Federal Trade Commission took a closer look at the encryption claims, and found them to be bogus. While Kohler encrypts data in transit between the user's device and their servers, a security expert noted this is merely standard HTTPS encryption. Crucially, Kohler Health acts as one of the endpoints that can decrypt and process the "poop data" once it reaches their systems, meaning they can theoretically view it. Read more on PCMag. #ToiletTech #DataPrivacy...

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