but my fellow ftc commissioner joshua wright, my fellow republican recently resigned , from the commission to return to academia. peter: do you perceive getting another republican on the commission soon? com. ohlhausen: well, eventually, congress has a lot on its plate as we're all over -- all aware. i would hope they would bring somebody on board soon. i understand they have a lot of priorities. brent kendall: we have talked about data security and the commission's privacy agenda and a close cousin of that. a chairwoman in introductory remarks she gave at a security conference described the ftc as the nation's key privacy agency. i wanted to ask you how we got to this point. i know the ftc has authority over unfair practices. is it entirely where the authority is derived from? we are in a world where the ftc is preparing to hold major privacy conferences. you go out and meet with computer programmers and hackers as you advise businesses on building security into their applications and products. how did we get to where we are? com. ohlhausen: the first privacy cases came out of deception a