It's certainly enough to prompt Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to announce . Hell hath no fury like a passel of state AGs in an election year, especially when their target isn't part of their constituency -- don't expect this to fade into obscurity any time before November.

Unlike, say, the millions of fish, birds, and unlucky humans who were victims of BP's tragic ineptitude, nobody was physically harmed by Google's mistake. We're not even sure they were virtually harmed. And in this case, -- they left their networks wide open, though they've certainly got a lot of company in that regard.

(And for that, you can also dump a bucket of blame on the makers of Wi-Fi routers, who could do a lot more to make their products easier for people to use. In this age of Twitter, Facebook, and iPhones, should we really expect consumers to punch 192.168.x.x into their browsers' URL windows and navigate a ridiculously arcane control panel? Hello?)

But what this incident does is shine a hot, white light on the other data Google has been scooping up about all of us since it started in back in 1998: petabytes' worth of data, in almost every conceivable form -- Web searches, calendars, email, shopping transactions, status updates -- and, soon, the shows we watch via Google TV. It's too much data in the hands of one company, one we are all now painfully aware doesn't even know what kinds of info it's been collecting.

Google doesn't for people to mistrust it. It just has to be too greedy. It's . Wi-Fi spygate is driving that point home to the millions of users who haven't been paying close attention until now.