Google Analytics nonexistent privacy policy breaks site(?)

As of today, had to remove ALL GA code

[p5gal5]

Normally a firefox user, I didn't notice that a couple of my sites with GA were not working in IE8 until this morning.

At a normal privacy setting, IE8 is now showing any pages with GA (had mine in the footer) to have the error:
"Could not find a privacy policy for [google.com...] To view this site's privacy policy, contact the Web site directly."

Anyone else seeing this? Most unpleasant start to the day. All GA code has been removed, and now the pages are displaying fine. Used GA for 3+ years, upgraded when they switched to the new code few months ago, never had this problem before.

[p5gal5]

Also of note: it gives two error messages - also cannot find a privacy policy for [google.com...]

[swa66]

IE has (since a while AFAIK) been blocking cookies based on not having a "privacy policy it can compare against.

My own sites don't have a computer parsable privacy policy (nor do I intend to make any anytime soon, but it seems to work in the default settings of IE8.

On my sites Google's cookies are blocked in the default setting.

If you ask me there's nothing wrong with blocking cookies (in my real browser I block nearly all of them), but to allow them based on a machine parable privacy policy is nonsense in my book (at the policy can claim anything it wants, hardly anybody is going to parse it to understand it). But it's Microsoft ... they surely have seen someway to dominate the world in doing that.

Do you have a computer parsable privacy policy (p3p) for _your_ site ?

Note that [w3.org...] says :

there was insufficient support from current Browser implementers for the implementation of P3P 1.1.

So I think the consensus is that it's dead and buried.