Comment on Can somebody explain to me why this needs Bluetooth?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoOne very cool thing would be a urinal that does internal health checks on your piss and allows you to access that on your phone. But yeah bluetooth is a shit choice for that too.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
My main concern every time these health-sensing toilets come up (it’s a topic on everyone’s mind, ya know?) is how long until they start associating waste with the people it comes from, and then forwarding that info on to entities like insurance companies? I’d be too paranoid to use these in public bathrooms, and if I had one at home I’d be doing the usual IoT best practices - keep it on it’s own network with no internet access.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Yeah i didnt really specify that but i had the same thought. For a user its impossible to assess, whether its offline or not, so it will never be an acceptable system.