What's going on at the back-end? Risks and benefits of smart toilets

TL;DR

This paper analyzes expert perspectives on smart toilets that record health data, highlighting potential risks and benefits, and emphasizing the need for risk mitigation to realize health advantages.

Contribution

It provides a thematic analysis of expert opinions on the risks and benefits of health data recording in smart toilets, emphasizing current gaps in risk mitigation.

Findings

Risks of data privacy and security are significant.

Health benefits are recognized but depend on effective risk mitigation.

Current concerns often outweigh potential benefits outside specific contexts.

Abstract

This paper presents a thematic analysis of an expert focus group considering smart toilets that record health data. The themes that arise indicate risks, many of which could be mitigated but currently are not, suggesting health benefits for the moment override other concerns only in specific application contexts.