Al-Ahmed v. Twitter, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ALI AL-AHMED, Case No. 21-cv-08017-EMC 8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S 9 v. MOTION TO DISMISS 10 TWITTER, INC., et al., Docket No. 30 11 Defendants. 12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION 15 Plaintiff Al-Ahmed is a critic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”) and has been 16 granted asylum in the United States. Between 2013–2015, two of Twitter’s (now former) 17 employees, Defendants Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Hamad A. Alzabarah, accessed user 18 information on Al-Ahmed without authorization and provided it to KSA government…