TL;DR: Startups fail often, leaving users of their products in the lurch, and investors often try to make back some losses by selling user data and patents. Data leakage is permanent and data breaches can be expensive. People with neural implants can be left with failing hardware permanently wired into their nervous systems and no way to maintain it. The only humane solution is for research and development to be funded publicly and for the technology to be standard, open, and replicable. [by gtp3]