[m4xm4n]

brb writing a dystopian fiction where members of the criminal underworld pee in bottles and do... other things... to evade the state. and then there's a sherlock-type investigator who's chasing a character through the sewers, etc.

[ssnistfajen]

It's already a thing to some extent, at least for heads of states. Kim Jong Un is known to have a personal toilet that's taken with him on foreign trips: https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-brought-his-own-...

I've seen similar claims made on the Internet about the U.S. president and the French president, although these ones aren't proven. Macron did refuse a COVID test on his trip to Russia in early 2022 presumably due to concerns about DNA collection.

[perihelions]

Without spoilers: that was a major plot point in Gattaca (1997).

[whinenot]

Putin already does this.[0]. He doesn't want adversaries to know what drugs he's taking (presumably for cancer).

[0]https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Poutine-malade...

[dendrite9]

There may have learned a lesson from Stalin.

"According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special department to get its hands on people's faeces.

The ambitious aim: to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools.

In other words, espionage via excrement."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35427926

[netsharc]

I remember saying that the Secret Service has a sophisticated portable toilet for the president to use when he's travelling, but the only source I could find was some conspiracy website. (I found it during the Bush II administration, so it's either gone from the Internet, or Google has probably lost it)

[reureu]

You'd enjoy "Urinetown: The Musical"