A new report... identifies significant flaws with the way live facial recognition (LFR) technology was trialled in London by the Metropolitan Police Service... Metropolitan Police chose not to exercise its right of reply... [Dr Daragh Murray] said... “The legal basis for the trials was unclear and is unlikely to satisfy the ‘in accordance with the law’ test established by human rights law... Ultimately, the impression is that human rights compliance was not built into the Metropolitan Police’s systems from the outset, and was not an integral part of the process.”... The main concerns raised in the report are...it is highly possible that police deployment of LFR technology may be held unlawful if challenged before the courts... because there is no explicit legal authorisation for the use of LFR in domestic law [and]... numerous operational failures including: inconsistencies in the process of officers verifying a match made by the technology... Further issues highlighted include... [c]riteria for including people on the ‘watchlist’ were not clearly defined... [and] there were issues with the accuracy of the ‘watchlist’ and information was often not current.