iFixit teardown finds lots of sensors, but no NSA spying, built into Xbox One’s Kinect

Xbox One hit the stores last night, and iFixit has done a teardown of the innards of what it calls “America’s favorite surveillance system — the second-generation Kinect,” the motion-sensing and voice-recognizing camera for the Microsoft’s video game console.

And the repair service happily reports, “Good news, tin-hat wearers: The Kinect does not have any National Security Agency-grade hardware inside.” That’s a tongue-in-cheek joke about fears that Microsoft had created an always-on, always-watching-you device in your living room with the Kinect motion sensor, which has a high-definition camera in it.