For just $599 and your dignity, Kohler's new "smart" toilet cam will lovingly photograph your excrement. Ostensibly to analyze your gut health, but, and this is a big but, share those snapshots with the cloud. Nothing says privacy like a lens staring up from your plumbing and a company pretending Transport Layer Security is "end-to-end encryption."

The company's use of the expression "end-to-end encryption" is, however, wrong, as security researcher Simon Fondrie-Teitler pointed out in a blog post on Tuesday.

By reading Kohler's privacy policy, it's clear that the company is referring to the type of encryption that secures data as it travels over the internet, known as TLS encryption — the same that powers HTTPS websites.

Using the right terms matters, especially in the context of users

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