Las bases de datos como DeFlock son muy buenas, pero no son perfectas #puertorico #flock #alpr

Our Take

Credit to Carlos Berríos Polanco for pointing this out instead of just celebrating the tool: crowdsourced databases are only as good as the eyes on the ground. Flock Safety isn't publishing a public inventory of where its cameras live, so every pin on a map like ours comes from someone physically spotting a camera, confirming it, and logging it. That means coverage is always going to be spotty, especially in places like Puerto Rico where organized camera-spotting communities are newer and smaller than in the mainland US.

That imperfection isn't a reason to dismiss the project, it's the whole argument for why it exists. Flock and its law enforcement customers have no incentive to tell residents exactly how many eyes are watching their commute, so the burden falls on regular people to document it themselves. An incomplete public map is still infinitely more transparent than the alternative, which is total silence from the companies and agencies deploying this tech in our neighborhoods.

If you're in Puerto Rico or anywhere else and you spot a camera that isn't logged, that gap is exactly what the map is built to close, one confirmed location at a time. And if the bigger picture of blanket vehicle tracking bothers you, our take-action page has concrete ways to push back locally.