During her CES keynote address, Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez suggested that the growing crop of interconnected devices that make up the Internet of Things could potentially put individuals’ privacy and security at risk. “Ramirez outlined several concerns including ubiquitous data collection, or the ability of sensors to collect sensitive personal information about consumers all the time and in real time; unexpected uses of consumer data, such using individual energy use patterns to set their homeowners’ insurance rates; and cybersecurity threats,” reports The Wall Street Journal. She recommended that companies minimize the data they collect, consider encrypting sensitive information, and be more transparent about how they use personal data.