Huh? It contains a blanket ban on most forms of machine learning. There is a way around that ban, in the form of special authorization, but the ban exists nonetheless.

You're conflating "machine learning" with "machine learning based on data you hoovered up indiscriminately from non-consenting third parties".

Want to use machine learning to analyze stock price movements? For self-driving cars? You're fine.

For an example, looking at kaggle's page of open competitions, only 2 of 19 use datasets that I suspect would run into consent issues (predicting home credit default risk, and predicting demand for classified ads).

I'm starting to think you are not arguing in good faith. This is like saying a ban on using illegally obtained private photos is "a blanket ban on most photos".