Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

Sounds like the crappiest data source for AI training yet.

But in all seriousness, of course they can access the data. Otherwise who else would process it to give any health results back? I don't think encryption in transit is relevant to privacy concerns because the concerns are about such data being tied to you at all, in any way. At the same time, yes, this could product valuable health information.

Their better bet would be to allow full anonymity, so even if there is a leak (yeah, the puns write themselves), there is never a connection between this data and your person.

So basically their marketing-department is abusing a security term in order to sound good, as opposed to a software flaw.

They're claiming "end to end" encryption, which usually implies the service is unable to spy on individual users that are communicating to one-another over an individualized channel.

However in this case there are no other users, and their server is one of the "ends" doing the communicating, which is... perhaps not a literal contradiction in terms, but certainly breaking the spirit of the phrase.

Did they say which ends they meant?

They can encrypt data coming out of both ends?!

"potty training". Sorry.

Anyway a chemical or biological sensor in the bowl might be more useful.

Optical could be useful if it's doing spectrographic analysis: the color of poo and urine is sometimes informative.