Article 11 - “Processing which does not require identification”
Article 12 - “Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject”
I work in the big data field and while GDPR does cause a lot of drawbacks, it means that your data is a lot safer in the EU than in the US, leave alone in China (ideal place for machine learning and deep learning due to the tons of data freely available — imagine that you can make Minority report REAL, but using ML over neural networks — cool, but a personal data nightmare.
The meme ban and link tax are not about keeping citizens’ data safe. They are about keeping the ruling class safe from its citizeney.