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by teekert 1115 days ago
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.