The Commission shall publish annual reports on the use of real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposes, based on aggregated data in Member States on the basis of the annual reports referred to in paragraph 6. Those annual reports shall not include sensitive operational data of the related law enforcement activities.
The AI Act requires the Commission to publish annual reports of the uses of real-time RBI systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposesin the Member states and by Union institutions, agencies and bodies, based on aggregated data. These reports will be based on the information notified by the national authorities pursuant to Article 5(6) AI Act.
The Commission’s annual report shall not contain sensitive operational data. Sensitive operational data means ‘operational data related to activities of prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of criminal offences, the disclosure of which could jeopardise the integrity of criminal proceedings ’. 236 This could mean that specific details that reveal ongoing or past investigations, such as e.g., locations, camera’s used, shall not be published.