Google offers updates on Privacy Sandbox for Android

Google released updates on its Privacy Sandbox for Android, which is on track for a beta release by the end of 2022. The lead third-party cookie alternative being trialed in the sandbox, "Topics," was made available for a developer trial in April. Google will preview the "First Locally-Executed Decision over Groups Experiment" and "Attribution Reporting" concepts in May or June. On the beta release, Google said, "key components" of the sandbox "will be distributed as mainline modules" to Android devices in order to allow for improvements "in a seamless way."