"Earlier this year, home goods maker Kohler launched a smart camera called the Dekoda that attaches to your toilet bowl, takes pictures of it, and analyzes the images to advise you on your gut health. Anticipating privacy fears, Kohler said on its website that the Dekoda's sensors only see down into the toilet, and claimed that all data is secured with "end-to-end encryption.""
"A Kohler spokesperson did not respond to questions from TechCrunch, but a company "privacy contact" told Fondrie-Teitler that user data is "encrypted at rest, when it's stored on the user's mobile phone, toilet attachment, and on our systems." The company also said that, "data in transit is also encrypted end-to-end, as it travels between the user's devices and our systems, where it is decrypted and processed to provide our service.""
Kohler released the Dekoda, a toilet-mounted smart camera that photographs the bowl and analyzes images to advise on gut health. Kohler claimed the device only sees into the toilet and described data protection using the phrase "end-to-end encryption." Security analysis shows Kohler's privacy policy describes TLS-style encryption for data in transit rather than true end-to-end encryption. TLS protects data during transfer but allows server-side decryption and processing. Kohler's privacy contact stated data is encrypted at rest on devices and systems and that data in transit is encrypted and then decrypted on Kohler's systems for processing. The company said algorithms are trained on de-identified data only.
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