Cookies – those unseen and unannounced tools that scavenge data on all visitors to web sites – should be outlawed. When Green Peace wants information on you, they hire people to stand on the street corners, show you their credentials, and give you a form to fill out and sign. Getting private information by any other means is an invasion of privacy and a fundamental violation of the Bill of Rights. Not that anybody believes in Rights any more. We’ll give up anything to get a job – and that’s just what Washington wants to hear, and to write into law.