I agree, there are some stupid bureaucratic loop holes, i.e., Find a public data set without consents which you want to use. This is not allowed, but this is wh

I agree, there are some stupid bureaucratic loop holes, i.e., Find a public data set without consents which you want to use. This is not allowed, but this is what you can do: * Try to contact owner of data to ask for consent of all people (maybe thousands) * They ignore you because it's an insane task to arrange all those consents...but... * Now you have shown that you did a reasonable effort to obtain consent and... * Now you can use the data for research purposes. You can't use it for making/creating anything related to IP though. But you can get creative of course.