Mayor G.T. Bynum’s overall vision for Tulsa, Oklahoma is not a city where the Constitution is the supreme law of the land but a haven for the latest, greatest, most invasive technologies for the establishment of a police state.
One of the areas in which Mayor G.T. Bynum has focused his efforts has been on traffic lights. While many members of the public might believe that the currently placed devices on the traffic lights in Oklahoma are just ‘sensors,’ there is certainly more than meets the eye. These devices are sophisticated tracking devices with remote controls for turning the lights from green to yellow to red. These devices are designed to track not only license plate numbers but to engage drivers with one or more of the types of facial recognition scanning tools such as Clearview.AI.
These sophisticated tracking devices route any or all incoming data streams directly to a centralized data processing center inside of Tulsa, Oklahoma where members of the police analyze the data. Mayor G.T. Bynum’s tracking system is designed to provide the police with power beyond what the Constitution allows, since there is no basis in the Constitution for a license plate, a centralized data processing center for license plates, or the analysis of such data by a police agency.
There is nothing in the Constitution that can justify the creation of a AI driven traffic control system where control is not about the flow of traffic but about who visits which place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, information that neither the police nor anyone else should be entitled to track, store, or analyze.
Citizen residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma must reject Mayor G.T. Bynum together with the police state Mayor G.T. Bynum seeks to advance throughout the city. Citizen residents must demand the removal of these sophisticated tracking devices on traffic lights. They must demand that any or all data collected from these devices not only be deleted but that any or all insights or otherwise be deleted. Citizen residents must demand that any or all attempts to link information obtained by these devices in the political dossiers for which they are the raison d’etre be erased.