Case studies

I have re-written my introduction, explaining my focus on both Canada and the United States. Also I provided a brief explanation why I added the case study on East Germany. I would like to hear if this makes the page flow better. If not, do you think it would be better to delete that section?

I think that if you don't want to include anything on international privacy concerns or a really broad view of privacy and archives and the issues surrounding it in general, you should go even simpler with framing that case study. Instead of calling attention to it in your overview, just add a sentence to the beginning of that section like: "Issues stemming from the Stasi files after the fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany provide a view into the way privacy rights are handled in other parts of the world, and the ways in which they can take on a deeper meaning, especially when the collection of personal information is used as a means of repression and authoritarian control." (Which is basically the sentence you have in the introduction now.) That way you're not calling attention to the fact that everything else is the US and Canada right off the bat.