For the last year or more, most of the websites you visit have contained a pop-up warning you that the site uses cookies and asking you to accept their use. You may have even put one on your own website. But the cookies websites use aren’t always sweet and chewy. If you are going to use cookies, make sure you know their ingredients.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws in the European Union (EU) give its residents the right to be forgotten. But the EU’s highest court recently said that right only exists within the EU itself. Google and other search engines can still display that private information on websites based in the U.S., China, and elsewhere around the world.