One tick, two tick, blue tick: Accept WhatsApp's new privacy policy or else Updated Stacey and J Sbu Share this: WhatsApp has caused a lot of drama with its new privacy policy, but this might be the biggest catch yet. iStock It wasn't long ago that WhatsApp sent the world into a frenzy when they announced their new privacy policy. Another new favourite was Telegram and soon everybody was announcing that they would be switching to one of these. Now a few months have passed and every paranoid or wary person seems to have forgotten to completely switch over and have remained pretty loyal to WhatsApp.