🔍 What is DeathMonitor?
DeathMonitor is an automated news-aggregation, entity-indexing, and natural language processing (NLP) platform designed to monitor global news feeds and official Wikidata registries in real time. It alerts users instantly when public figures, targets, or monitored individuals on their personalized watchlist pass away.
⚙️ How It Works
Concurrent scrapers monitor breaking obituaries from major outlets (AP News, NYTimes, ABC News) alongside exact Wikidata Q-ID verification every 10 minutes.
spaCy Transformer models parse news headlines while syntactic guards eliminate false positives (e.g., ignoring relatives or possessive relationships).
Web Push Protocol delivers alerts directly to browser & PWA devices, providing direct links to breaking news coverage.
🛡️ Privacy & Transparency
- Your account data, watchlists, and push subscriptions can be fully purged at any time using the Delete Account action in your dashboard.
- Full GDPR data portability support via the Export Data action.
- Push notification permissions are strictly managed client-side using VAPID key encryption.
- All verified coverage sources and Wikipedia references are linked directly on confirmed events.