Why GDPR will Make Machine Learning not so legal

It reminds me when the US government tried to make exportation of strong encryption algorithms illegal. I think it is still illegal to export encryption software (but not algorithms written in plain text) to some countries. This was driven by the same argument: a fear of data mining, analytics, and mathematics, by government lawmakers who do not understand anything about it. Eventually, just like with encryption laws, the GDPR regulation will die -- not because it is bad, but because it is very poorly designed by incompetent people.