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This AI analyzes your excrement using a connected camera placed in your bathroom

An Austin-based startup has designed a camera that would analyze the contents of toilet bowls to determine if there is a problem.

AI could help save lives in the future, but in the meantime, an Austin-based American startup has come up with Throne, a tool that can take photos of excrement and then analyze them using artificial intelligence.

Lack of hydration, intestinal problems… the AI ​​was trained by doctors to help users of the application – in beta version – better understand what “your excrement is trying to tell you about your health”, through an application.

What impact does it have on privacy?

However, not only excrement can be analyzed, since urine is also photographed. Contacted by TechCrunch, the startup behind this surprising project explains that it has taken measures to maintain the “confidentiality and security” of its users.

However, it should be noted that the camera films the bowl, and not the butt of the person sitting there: “We only capture images of the contents of your bowl, any other data is not relevant to our mission and could compromise our ability to provide accurate health information,” the company says on its website.

Additionally, Throne uses facial recognition technology to “automatically remove all irrelevant images.” You can also delete everything on request and you can also give full access, a bit like what the GDPR, the European regulation on personal data, allows.

When droppings are analyzed, the published data is anonymized and then added: “This means we cannot trace it back to the original user.”

Throne is primarily intended for victims of chronic diseases, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. The price of this camera and its application is $499.

Author: Sylvain Trinel
Source: BFM TV

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