11.   Microsoft and Netscape browsers use cookies to create personal start pages.

12.   Sites using the cookies know when your number comes back, so they can show you a whole different set of new and exciting ads.

13.   Some students have even used cookies and candy to build coliseums in the past!

14.   The cookie can be used to store data that the visitor will need whenever he returns to the site.

15.   The information gathered by using cookies allows advertisers to know which users would likely buy their products.

16.   The office had subcontracted the work to the DoubleClick ad company, which used the cookies to track the number of visitors to the site.

17.   There are concerns that cookies can be used to lift personal information from your PC or perhaps something more insidious.

18.   On several occasions government Web sites have used cookies, small files that can track Web visitors, despite a White House restriction on their use.

19.   The departments of Education, Treasury, Energy, Interior and Transportation used unauthorized cookies, as did NASA and the General Services Administration, the report said.

20.   The proposal calls for strict rules on how cookies can be used by commercial website operators.