Of course, that would require respecting a persons privacy and not falling for the lure of "big data" "saving the world".
If you need to go to a doctor to get any analysis you might as well bring your own stool sample.
This is intended to replace home stool testing kits which are well icky and tricky to use.
Having smart toilets in public or semi pubic places would be a good balance between privacy and utility, it can’t tie results to a given user but it can collect collective health data and alert users of potential health concerns.
Also, make it full of "useful" granularity like: "upload data on Tuesdays" or "Only upload data if the water PH is less than 7".
Both governments and private corporations have given us ample evidence that the answer should be a hard "no!".
The article states: "The smart toilet automatically sends data extracted from any sample to a secure, cloud-based system for safekeeping."
This sentence sounds like satire these days.
Privacy is important, but I think the solution I want is more in the area of haveibeenpwned, where an anonymized hash is passed into the ether rather than all the personally identifiable stool information.