[dragonwriter]

That's what they are trying to suggest, because they are still trying to use the GDPR as part of their argument challenging the US court order. (Kind of a longshot to get a US court to agree that the obligation of a US party to preserve evidence related to a suit in US courts under US law filed by another US party is mitigated by European regulations in any case, even if their argument that such preservation would violate obligations that the EU had imposed on them.)