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Horizontal Review Radar

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Current case study · Privacy Working Group

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

A live view of the review trail for a specification seeking Candidate Recommendation. Review progress is derived from public workflow evidence, not an official W3C completion score.

2review trails found
2open requests
3areas unverified
Read this carefully: “Unknown” means this prototype has not found reliable public evidence for that stage. It does not mean a group has not reviewed the spec. Percentages are a simple stage-completion indicator for the demo, not an official W3C metric.

Progress by horizontal review area

Evidence found across public review trackers and the specification repository.

Evidence snapshot: 26 Oct 2026 · live refresh available

Technical architecture

TAG
● Untriaged
25%

TAG review request is open. No review outcome is evidenced in the captured issue.

Issue #1265 ↗
Request opened 14 Aug 2026

Accessibility

APA
● Pending assignment
25%

Review requested; labelled pending and waiting for a reviewer to be assigned.

Issue #191 ↗
Requested 15 Oct · deadline 26 Dec 2026

Internationalisation

i18n
? Not verified
—

No matching review request verified in this initial evidence snapshot.

Inspect i18n tracker ↗
Absence of evidence ≠ no review

Privacy

PING
? Not verified
—

GPC is a Privacy WG work item; that alone does not prove a separate horizontal review is complete.

Inspect privacy tracker ↗
External review status not confirmed

Security

SEC
● Self-review exists
25%

The spec repository includes a Security & Privacy self-review questionnaire. External review status is unverified.

Self-review ↗
Self-review is not external sign-off

Review lifecycle

The observable steps that move a review from request to resolution.
1
Published draft and self-review

GPC has a dated Working Draft and a linked security/privacy questionnaire.

Evidence found
2
Formal review requests

TAG and APA request records are discoverable in their public trackers.

Partial
3
Reviewer triage and findings

APA request remains pending assignment; TAG request is marked untriaged.

In progress
4
Specification issues answered

Link each finding to the spec issue, WG response, and any follow-up action.

Not verified
5
Resolution and transition evidence

Record resolved and unresolved findings, plus the evidence used for the next maturity transition.

Not verified

Evidence trail

Selected public records that explain the current picture.
APA review requested

Working Draft approaching Candidate Recommendation; labelled REVIEW REQUESTED and pending.

15 Oct 2026 · Issue #191
TAG horizontal review opened

Review request includes the spec, explainer, alternatives, and WG request link. Current progress shown as untriaged.

14 Aug 2026 · Issue #1265
Implementation/spec discussion

A closed issue discusses an inconsistency between the specification and Web Platform Tests' TestDriver implementation. This is technical discussion, not proof of horizontal-review closure.

5 Aug 2026 · Issue #151
Security and privacy self-review published

The repository documents the feature's exposed signal and other security/privacy considerations.

Repository evidence