Recently we wrote about the growing calls for transparency during the TPP negotiations. It‘s still early days for TAFTA/TTIP, but already there are some signs that senior politicians are becoming aware that transparency is no longer some minor aspect of these trade talks, but a hugely important issue in itself. We know this thanks to an earlier fight by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) group to obtain from the European Parliament various documents relating to ACTA — the result of an infamously opaque process. Its complaint was directed to the little-known European Ombudsman: