Abdulaziz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division OMAR ABDULAZIZ, Case No. 19-cv-06694-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

TWITTER, INC., Re: ECF No. 99 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff Omar Abdulaziz is a political dissident who moved to Canada in 2009 and was granted political asylum there in 2014 based on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s persecution of him.1 In this lawsuit, he alleges that in 2014, Saudi authorities recruited two employees of the social- media company Twitter to access his confidential Twitter data and thereafter used malware in 2018 to hack his phone (and obtain texts, emails, and other information) and then targeted his family. In an earlier complaint, the plaintiff sued Twitter for violating the Stored Communications Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law, and state law. The state claims included Twitter’s negligent hiring,…