Well, with all this web seaching--this may be a good time for a cookie reminder.

Quotes from Viktor Mayer-Schonberger:

"Cookies are stored in the user's computer without their consent or knowledge (First stage)."

"Cookies are (during the second stage) clandestinely and automatically transferred from the user's machine to a Web server."

"Then, whenever a user directs a browser to a certain web page from the server, the browser will, without the user's knowledge, transmit the cookie containing personal information to the Web server."

What do we do??? Check out the FAQ's at Cookie Central for some suggestions.