Why are you putting the URLs of your links in the text? I fixed this one. Please fix the rest. Writing for the wiki is not a difficult skill, but it's one you need.

I spent three classes on the relationship between secrecy and privacy. Perhaps you think Fabio A Esteves, whoever he is, is more perceptive on this matter than I am, which for all I know is true. But engaging with the material of the course is not a mistake even so.

Your average John Smith does not need to be plotting a crime to need privacy. Whether or not you are a law-abiding citizen, you always put locks on your doors and close the curtains behind your windows. You may or may not enjoy recording tapes of your sexual intercourse, but chances are you would never want to publish them for the world to see. American journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose team published reports based on Edward Snowden’s findings on NSA mass surveillance, did a little social experiment to explain this difference. (https://www.mic.com/articles/188563/who-cares-i-have-nothing-to-hide-why-the-popular-response-to-online-privacy-is-so-flawed) He had asked people to email him all their email and social media passwords, and said that he would look through them and publish whatever that’s interesting. Not surprisingly, no one has yet to take on this offer. Why is it that we claim we have nothing to hide yet we still don’t want to let a stranger on the street scroll through our text messages? This is because we do value privacy, a right that allows us to share different levels of personal information with different people around us. We felt comfortable being vulnerable in front of the people that love and care about us, but the next morning we still “suit up” to face the scary outside world. Yet why are we willing to let more strangers we’ve never met get access to so much of our personal information.

It might be at least worth considering the point of my teaching on this subject, which is that despotism doesn't care whether you are law-abiding. I spent quite a bit of time on the relationship between 20th century history and the subject of your essay. It may have been that I was wrong, and that Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Indian Content Monitoring System don't exist. It may be that there will never be another police state in the history of the human race. But if that's your argument, you should say so. If it's not your argument, why are you leaving this point undiscussed. If you are going to quote Edward Snowden, should it not be worth asking why he says what he says?