Kohler steps into privacy doo-doo with its poop

A privacy brouhaha has erupted over Kohler Health’s new toilet camera, the Dekota, that scans your poop looking for clues about your gut health.

Specifically, a security researcher is disputing Kohler Health’s claims that data collected by the Dekota , including scans of your fecal matter, are end-to-end encrypted. Kohler Health, meanwhile, is doubling-down, countering that the connection is end-to-end encrypted.

In a blog post , researcher Simon Fondrie-Teitler (as reported by TechCrunch ) defines end-to-end encryption as “a method of securing data that ensures only the sender and their chosen recipient are able to view it. Correctly implemented, it prevents other parties, including the developer of the application, from accessing the protected data.”

But as Fondrie-Teitler lear