Griffin

INTRODUCTION

13 Plaintiff Chicory Griffin (“Plaintiff”) is an inmate in Missouri who is proceeding without 14 representation by an attorney. He filed this civil complaint against Sheryl Sandberg, the 15 corporations Cambridge Analytica and Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), and other unidentified 16 defendants. (ECF No. 6.) He is granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis in a separate order. 17 For the reasons explained below, the complaint is dismissed with leave to amend.

BACKGROUND

19 Plaintiff alleges Sandberg “assisted the violations of my data privacy right” by “illegally 20 disclosing” his data to “3rd parties, app developers, whitelisted parties, data brokers, etc.” (ECF 21 No. 6 at 2-3.) He further alleges Cambridge Analytica “wrongfully expos[ed] my data to a 22 plethora of culprits” that caused him “to be cyberstalked, profiled, and subjected to bio-metric 23 technology.” (Id. at 3.) He also alleges Meta caused him to be “subjected to bio-metric 24 technology, cyberstalking, and profiling” and “abuse of a plethora of data to 3rd parties” by 25 “abusing my data” and “my friends [sic] data.” (Id.) Finally, Plaintiff alleges a number of 26 unidentified…