Many users 'wouldn’t, for very good reasons, like cameras pointing up their bottoms.'
Researchers want to give the toilet a smart makeover — but we're not talking about heated seats or bidet attachments.that researchers are developing a scanner that can recognize the user's unique "anal print," or "distinctive features of their anoderm," meaning the skin of the anal canal.
To pull it off, they installed a camera inside a toilet bowl and used machine learning algorithms to match stool samples to specific, uh, users. The system could even calculate "the flow rate and volume of urine using computer vision as a uroflowmeter," according to the researchers'If you have any privacy concerns about all this, the scientists say the butthole data is all "stored and analyzed in an encrypted cloud server.
One worrisome scenario is that insurance companies could get hold of that data and start offering preferred treatment to those who are otherwise healthy. "Once you start to measure something that is of the body, the privacy line is stepped over," Booth told
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