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 FOURTH AMENDED

COMPLAINT

TWITTER, INC., Re: ECF No. 119 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION Employees of Twitter — at the direction of the Saudi government — allegedly accessed the plaintiff’s private Twitter account in 2015 and obtained his personal information. In 2018, Saudi agents planted malware on his phone, hacked it, obtained personal information, and targeted his family. The plaintiff is a Saudi dissident with a large social-media following who received political asylum in Canada in 2014. He sued Twitter for negligent supervision and retention of its employees (among other claims). The court twice dismissed the claims for lack of Article III standing (because Twitter’s alleged misconduct did not cause the harm), as barred by the statute of limitations,…