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‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

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there was no other method than anus scan for authentication? the fingerprint was not enough? if the anus is so reliable why bother with the fingerprint at all? how about voice authentication in lieu of all that?

This is honestly incredible. They had to have taken this out of the adult swim promo. This comparison obviously begs the question, it it illegal to store a scan of a child's unique anal topography?

There was a gynecologist arrested a few years ago for taking related photos of (adult) patients.

Storing the photo in a visually-renderable format is probably unacceptable. Storing hashes should work though.

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Can anyone actually build something good? ‘What’s another attack surface of a persons dignity and privacy?’ - all new products. You’re all going the way of the dinosaurs with your ‘new’ bs

My wife has an autoimmune disease which can manifest with blood and protein spilling into urine due to impaired kidney function. To monitor this daily would be a tremendous improvement to our ability to monitor for flares.

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>I hope this will soon be a standard in houses. I sure as hell hope is is not. Like every other piece of convenience crapware (pun intended) we've surrounded ourselves with, it would undoubtedly come packed with data sharing agreements with ad networks / data brokers. If this ever becomes some sort of norm, I would encourage people to start mailing boxes of their own waste directly to Google for them to enjoy analyzi…

Darryl Cherney once organized a pee-in to protest a call by Ronald Reagan for mandatory government drug testing, convincing several hundred people to mail urine samples to the White House. When the containers were all ruptured by the sorting machinery in the Garberville post office, much of that part of the county's mail smelled like a public toilet for several days. Darryl was informed of the disaster and shrugged s…

That's fascinating. Hopefully the effort can be revived should Google et al. pursue our health data.

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Well those people who stole your poo just performed a medical procedure upon you without your consent. That poo is 'you' I'm pretty sure... Whoever has the best lawyer wins.

Many jobs have random drug testing and they're perfectly legal. Even worse, Uhual will not hire nicotine users: https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/19926/U-Haul-To-Impleme...

Is it legal to test someone without their knowledge or consent? Like if I MITM the public toilet and start drug testing random passersby... well the results would probably be skewed due to contamination... Now that I think about it, this kind of massive, drive-by poo-veillance is actually a really hard problem.

Wait I'm getting distracted. Yeah, original question: is consent needed before such testing can be done? Mileage varies by state maybe?

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Can anyone actually build something good? ‘What’s another attack surface of a persons dignity and privacy?’ - all new products. You’re all going the way of the dinosaurs with your ‘new’ bs

My wife has an autoimmune disease which can manifest with blood and protein spilling into urine due to impaired kidney function. To monitor this daily would be a tremendous improvement to our ability to monitor for flares.

Thats a brilliant example where we need to provide her with the device she needs.

I still dont want it as a product thats in every home

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