And you wouldn't want that, because then your sample data becomes useless and people start to shit in their back yards, or in public parks.
That said I am still looking for the toilet that does urin analyses ala The Island, I just only want it to tell me, and let me choose to inform my doctor.
I totally agree. It would be wonderful if there was an inexpensive device (it doesn't need to be a toilet) that could perform thorough health analysis, but inform only the user and not any third party. i.e. no Dr or pharmaceutical companies, the producer or manufacturer, the user's insurance broker, ad / marketing companies etc. Absolutely nobody but the user.
I want to trust technology like this because it could perform a profound public good, but untrustworthy companies keep being identified that have ulterior motives (for all sorts of technology, not this specifically).
And speaking of "public good" it would be extremely beneficial to scientists and doctors if that information was made available to them. And beneficial to you, because that device could be improved to give you a better, more informed diagnosis.
The question is what do you care more about, your health? Or your insurance premium?
EDIT: Of course you would want to anonymize it, but you could only go so far while making it still useful. If you unfocused it to a neighbourhood, insurance premiums would go up for bad areas, and the housing market would fluctuate with the health of it's residence.
On the upside, cities and landowners would be incentivized to now care about the health of their residents. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> On the upside, cities and landowners would be incentivized to now care about the health of their residents. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That would be an interesting consequence.
The best you could do is narrow it down to any homes upstream of sample collection, which could be a single neighborhood or an entire city. Or it could be a drifter peeing straight into the sewer grate who doesn't even live in the city.
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That fact might make any DNA matching inconclusive.
Long answer: Not really. If it is aggregated to a point that you can't tell who it's coming from specifically, it seems like less of a worry. If they installed it at each toilet... different.
Also - I'm okay with it as long as it is not used to issue warrants. I would take another look at it if they did.