Since January 1, 2010, production, sale or purchase of camera glasses for the blind may have become illegal in Russia as a result of a revised criminal law reading "Уголовный кодекс Российской Федерации… 3. Незаконные производство, сбыт или приобретение специальных технических средств, предназначенных для негласного получения информации". The prototype devices shown on this page were created before 2005. We can only hope that suitable exceptions will be defined for the perfectly legitimate uses of The vOICe by blind people in Russia. Note that The vOICe in normal use does not store or broadcast any video, but merely acts as the blind user's "eye", while the camera should be concealed for a normal non-stigmatizing appearance.

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