ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to bring together the main findings in the book and propose how they could be used to address the legal issues and problems posed by the use of biometric technology. Overall, the book has examined the biometric-related privacy issues from the perspective of technical, social and legal realities. The development of biometric technology and its interaction with legal and policy changes, as discussed in the preceding chapters, indicate that the current legal environment in the United States, Europe and Australia needs to be improved. Currently, privacy and data protection laws in these jurisdictions (and, no doubt, others) are far from adequate to deal with the problems appearing or that will appear due to the increased use of biometric technology. This is due to both general weaknesses in the laws themselves and a lack of normative determination and/or guidance regarding biometrics specifically.
