Paris to test face-recognition software at airports

Groupe ADP, the operator of Paris’s airports, has begun testing new face-recognition software at Charles de Gaulle airport to speed passengers through immigration faster after terrorist attacks on the capital doubled delays amid tighter security.

The new software is from Vision-Box, a company in Portugal, and Morpho Detection, a unit of aircraft engineering firm Safran. Following the attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, France required computer records of every passenger passing border control.

That doubled the number of passengers exposed to waits of as much as an extra hour to get through controls, ADP said.