Campaigners in the UK want togo even further and publish minutes of meetings between lobbyists and ministers and name the actual civil servants that are being lobbied.
And so there's no reason to my mind, that this shouldn't be an enormous boon because authors don't want to have togo out there and publish it themselves.
But Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, the tsar charged by Parliament with ensuring the act is enforced, has said he wants doctors togo a step further and publish individual data.