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Police Turnaround Data Now Live on Rapid

Live data on police disclosure times is now available to all users within Rapid via the dashboard screen.

Strategic Growth in Action: Investing in Talent to Power NetWatch's Next Chapter

17 new hires, 10 promotions, and big steps in talent strategy — NetWatch is growing with purpose, focus, and fresh momentum.

How AI is Changing OSINT: Investigating X Accounts with Grok

A look into how you can use X's in built AI, Grok, to assist your OSINT investigation and how this might impact investigations more widely.

NetWatch Recognised as a 2025 Hyer Culture 100 Award Winner

Prestigious Award Celebrates Exceptional Workplace Culture Across the UK

As Short as a TikTok: The Ban That Wasn't

Will TikTok's temporary ban disrupt its explosive growth? Joshua Bonser explores the ripple effects on users, alternatives, and the app's uncertain future.

Probability of locating social media accounts - Insights from NetWatch's 2023 and 2024 data

NetWatch has published our annual dataset revealing the probability of locating social media accounts based on a subject's age range across all major social platforms. The data highlights shifting user behaviour across platforms and age groups. Here's what we learned about the probability of finding social media accounts in 2024 versus 2023:

Levelling Up: A Vision for People and Performance

Our Head of HR discusses some of the initiatives we have introduced to help foster a great culture within NetWatch and what she might do if budget was not a barrier...

Stick or Twist: Improving your chances of landing a fundamental dishonesty ruling

Our training manager Richard Vaughan takes a look at some of the issues that could prevent your OSINT research being used in court, or even to negotiate a claim - and provides some best practise guidance.

Strava: Making a Mountain of a Morning Run

NetWatch Training Manager Richard Vaughan takes a look at why Strava can be such a valuable resource for open source intelligence work

Mental Health & NetWatch

The mental health of our team is important to us at NetWatch - ESG Officer Ashleigh explains some of the initiatives we have in place to support our staff

NetWatch OSINT critical in UK's largest fundamental dishonesty judgement to date

Learn more about the OSINT work undertaken by NetWatch which proved pivotal in securing the UK's largest fundamental dishonesty verdict to date - and a £6.6m saving for the insurer

Sustainability at NetWatch

Contacting Witnesses on the Back of Incident Investigations: The NetWatch Advantage

The OSINT work done by NetWatch during an Incident Investigation means that we are exceptionally well placed to conduct interviews with witnesses. NetWatch Investigator Kelsey Cutts explains why.

Netwatch Global joins forces with the Insurance Fraud Bureau

Netwatch Global, the Open Source Investigations (OSINT) experts, have joined the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) membership to play a key role in the industry's fight against fraud.

How we leverage OSINT to deliver better interview results

As specialist open source intelligence investigators it makes sense that any insurance interview undertaken by our team is informed and guided by comprehensive OSINT, we use this intelligence to deliver exceptional client results from interviews.

Uncovering Private Social Media Accounts for Insurance Claims

Stay ahead and get the evidence you need with our real-time alerts. Settling an insurance claim can be a very complicated process, and it's therefore hugely important that insurance companies know exactly where they stand with the claimant and their circumstances.

Tweeting Transformation: Musk's Twitter Makeover, Social Media Ripples and the Impact on OSINT a Year Later

What did the Musk shake-up actually mean for social media and OSINT. It has been approximately a year since Elon Musk finalised his purchase of Twitter and rebranded the social media platform as X.

Insurers that embrace OSINT throughout the policy lifecycle stand to reap the rewards through a less risky book of business

OSINT as a sector and discipline is here and it's flying