User Verification for Government Employees

Question

Hi HN community, I'm building a web app where govt workers and citizens can interact with one another. If a citizen lives in a zipcode that the govt worker serves, they can interact.It is important that neither group be impersonated. - How can I verify the identity of both groups? - How can I verify that the citizen lives in the zipcode they provided?Any tools, libraries, methods, services are welcome!Thank you in advance.

pavel_lishin · Accepted Answer

There exist services for verifying user identities; I'd offload the civilian side to that.For government employees, that might have to be done by hand, by verifying through public records.

mostlysimilar · Answer

For the government employees only allow .gov domains and verify email.For people... maybe require a small temporary credit card change with a billing address matching their inputted zip code?

KomoD · Answer

There's tons of KYC services that will do it for you

User Verification for Government Employees

There exist services for verifying user identities; I'd offload the civilian side to that.
For government employees, that might have to be done by hand, by verifying through public records.

For the government employees only allow .gov domains and verify email.
For people... maybe require a small temporary credit card change with a billing address matching their inputted zip code?

There's tons of KYC services that will do it for you