Compare and contrast order.
The paragraph is comparing the persons interest to where they would go.
An independent clause is a sentence or part of one that can stand alone.
So I have a feeling that the first one is correct as "My sister and I love to cook" and "we spend hours cooking together" can both stand alone yet are joined by a semicolon.
I hope this has helped
well, surveillance means observation, and privacy means, well, being able to be free without people watching you / observing you so maybe observing your privacy? i've never heard of that-
