Internet Explorer Privacy Policy dialog box is blank for P3P privacy policy websites

Consider the following scenario:

• You are using Windows Internet Explorer to browse a website that has a Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) privacy policy.
• On the View menu, you click Webpage Privacy Policy.
• In the Privacy Report dialog box, you select any of the listed sites, and then you click Summary.

In this scenario, when you try to display the Privacy Policy dialog box in Internet Explorer, the dialog box is empty.

This problem occurs after you install the security update MS11-057 (KB 2559049). This security update introduced a problem in the handling of a website's privacy policy file. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To resolve this issue on a client computer, install the following cumulative security update:

Security update information

To resolve this issue, install the most recent hotfix for Windows Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website: For more technical information about the most recent hotfix for Windows Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.