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Your privacy could be quite literally about to go down the pan! While facial recognition has plenty of people turning the other cheek, now anal prints could be the next big splash for AI.

A radiologist believes the future of medicine could be studying your stool. Sanjiv Gambhir has developed what's known as a 'Smart Toilet' - which can analyze your urine and feces to detect early signs of disease, such as cancer.

How does it work. The toilet effectively takes your "anal print," which is said to be as unique as your finger print. (Don't experiment)

After that, all your data is kept in the... cloud.

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On 29 Sep 2021, August Abolins said the following...

A radiologist believes the future of medicine could be studying your stool. Sanjiv Gambhir has developed what's known as a 'Smart Toilet' - which can analyze your urine and feces to detect early signs of disease, such as cancer.

The City of Ottawa has been analyzing wastewater for covid, but this is more centralized.

"Studies have shown that a significant proportion of people with active COVID-19 infections shed the coronavirus (called SARS-VCoV-2) in their stool, sometimes even before their symptoms start. Every time an individual with COVID-19 goes to the bathroom, they flush the virus into the wastewater system."

https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/reports-research-and-statistics/Wastewater _COVID-19_Surveillance.aspx


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Hello Jay!

** On Tuesday 28.09.21 - 18:01, you wrote to me:

On 29 Sep 2021, August Abolins said the following...

"Studies have shown that a significant proportion of
people with active COVID-19 infections shed the
coronavirus (called SARS-VCoV-2) in their stool, sometimes
even before their symptoms start. Every time an
individual with COVID-19 goes to the bathroom, they flush
the virus into the wastewater system."

But the virus is not likely to be viable (still active) in the
waste, is it?

And just consider all the other crap that people can flush down
their toilets, and the water is simply "treated" to be
drinkable. :/
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On 28 Sep 2021, August Abolins said the following...

But the virus is not likely to be viable (still active) in the
waste, is it?

I don't know about active, but they can plot neighbourhoods where they need to concentrate resources as well as if there are any active variants of concern.

So the science is sounds it seems. The "smart toilet" you originally posted about seems to be moving that technology indoors to our very own porcelain thrones.


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Hello Jay!

So the science is sounds it seems. The "smart toilet" you
originally posted about seems to be moving that technology
indoors to our very own porcelain thrones.

Unless developers install those things as "standard" toilets, I
don't see them widely accepted. They will need some kind of
internet connectivity.. and with the (hopefully) growing
concern about privacy and blanket statements like this:

" The smart toilet automatically sends data extracted from any
sample to a secure, cloud-based system for safekeeping. "

..I don't see people trusting one manufacturer's claim to
what is "secure".

Apparently it was initially designed to *just* use fingerprint
technology on the flusher:

" One of the most important aspects of the smart toilet may
well be one of the most surprising - and perhaps unnerving: It
has a built-in identification system. "The whole point is to
provide precise, individualized health feedback, so we needed
to make sure the toilet could discern between users," Gambhir
said. "To do so, we made a flush lever that reads
fingerprints."

" The team realized, however, that fingerprints aren't quite
foolproof. What if one person uses the toilet, but someone else
flushes it? Or what if the toilet is of the auto-flush variety?

" They added a small scanner that images a rather camera-shy
part of the body. You might call it the polar opposite of
facial recognition. In other words, to fully reap the benefits
of the smart toilet, users must make their peace with a camera
that scans their anus."

Anyway.. the thing is so complex, something is bound to go
wrong with it. I don't see people rushing to fix a broken
camera that is built-in in the toilet.
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