The New York Times thinks so: just since I’ve been paying attention, I’ve noticed — 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 — eight articles about the threat to consumer privacy posed by increasingly effective online behavioral ad targeting.

Another burst of news about privacy online, with Ars Technica explaining that removing personal information from data isn’t enough to protect anonymity, and The Monitor giving an overview of how we’re losing our privacy online.

It’s interesting to watch reaction to the news of Twitter’s financing at a $1 billion valuation. The vast majority of commenters seem appalled (or at least cynically amused) at such a lofty valuation for a company with no meaningful revenues.