Al-Ahmed
Al-Ahmed v. Twitter, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALI AL-AHMED, Case No. 21-cv-08017-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION TO DISMISS
TWITTER, INC., et al., Docket No. 30 Defendants.
12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Al-Ahmed is a critic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”) and has been granted asylum in the United States. Between 2013–2015, two of Twitter’s (now former) employees, Defendants Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Hamad A. Alzabarah, accessed user information on Al-Ahmed without authorization and provided it to KSA government officials. Al- Ahmed filed this lawsuit against Abouammo, Alzabarah, and Twitter for violating the Electronics Communications Privacy Act (“EPCA”), violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), violating the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), violating California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”), breach of contract, intrusion upon seclusion, unjust enrichment, promissory estoppel,…