Paris Airport Tests Facial Recognition at Security
- Immigration delay doubled in wake of terror attacks, ADP says
- New software in test to let all Europeans show face to pass
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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 closely held company in Portugal, and Morpho Detection, a unit of Safran SA now being sold to Smiths Group Plc. Following the attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the state 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.