lammert - 4:20 pm on May 18, 2010 (gmt 0)

You can listen to air waves, but you are not allowed to store personal information obtained from them. Continental Europe has faced some political systems between 1935 and 1990 where mass storage of personal information was misused. Because of that history, sentiments of people in Europe are often against storage of personal information and in a number of countries laws have been created to prevent that.