A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

As the MIT Technology Review reports, an Australian woman named Rita Leggett who received an experimental seizure-tracking brain-computer interface (BCI) implant from the now-defunct company Neuravista in 2010 has become a stark example not only of the ways neurotech can help people, but also of the trauma of losing access to them when experiments end or companies go under.

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I mean if she agreed to it by contract there’s not much to argue.

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You can’t just put anything in a contract and say you can’t argue it.

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You can. They can do the surgery or they can be sued, it’s a binary choice.

Morals are a different story but legally no, it’s quite clear and arbitration agreements are pretty literally sections of contracts that say you can’t argue certain things in certain ways.

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No, you can’t. A contract doesn’t magically supersede law. For instance, you can’t sign a contract saying I can murder you.

arbitration agreements are pretty literally sections of contracts that say you can’t argue certain things in certain ways.

And arbitration clauses are not magical statements either. They’re enabled and restricted by law. It’s not even settled law. You have California trying to ban them and lots of courts ruling on various points and exceptions of the law.

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