THE STANDARD By Mirror | January 8th 2021 at 12:35:00 GMT +0300 A man poses with a smartphone in front of displayed Whatsapp logo in this illustration September 14, 2017. [Dado Ruvic, Reuters] Popular messaging app WhatsApp is changing its privacy policy and users' will lose access to their accounts if they do not agree by February 8. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which boasts two billion active users, is sending users a pop-up asking them to agree to share data with Facebook. However, the pop-up message makes it clear that agreeing to this is compulsory if people want to keep using the free app - and you will lose access to your account if you do not agree after February 8.