> A version of the toolbox seen by the Financial Times warns that “deployed without appropriate safeguards” contact tracing apps “could have a significant negative effect on privacy and individual rights and freedoms”. It warns that the potential threat to individual rights could be exacerbated by a disjointed approach. “A fragmented and uncoordinated approach risks hampering the effectiveness of measures aimed at combating the Covid-19 crisis, whilst also causing serious harm to the single market and to fundamental rights and freedoms,” the paper reads.