The wisdom of Alex Tabarrok

The new AEA policy which requires all data to be legally acquired has costs. As I read it, it would prohibit analysis of say the Panama papers or ProPublica tax data. Satellite data could also be considered questionable in some countries. https://t.co/kQJPL4nwbe

— Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ (@ATabarrok) January 18, 2023

This will in relative terms help the larger, better established researchers, right?  And how will it handle GDPR, the right to be forgotten, data storage under EU law, and so on?  What is the chance this has all been thought through properly?