Quiz of the day

Today's news is that the Government is planning to share people's personal information between Government departments. In the light of that,  today's quiz is to work out who wrote this:

        The machinery of modern government demands ever-increasing amounts of personal information. Services which are essential to the community - collection of taxes and administration of benefits; provision of education, transport and health services; the administration of justice and legal aid - cannot operate without disclosure of personal information. Defending privacy does not mean denying government the information it legitimately needs: it means instead ensuring that the individual, not the government, controls the collection and use of information.
        Growing computerisation has aroused public fears of a technological, 1984-style Big Brother - a national data bank, with files on everyone, churning out lists of deviants to government inspectors. Government departments, local authorities and the police already hold between them enough information to compile a comprehensive profile of every citizen of the United Kingdom. The Government has declared that it has no intention, of constructing such a data bank, or bringing together information now held by separate agencies). The linking of files now kept separately would involve a fundamental breach of trust between government and the community but, given the extent to which information is already shared between different bodies, it is impossible to be confident that future governments will resist the temptation.

Answer on Tuesday.