A method comprising: transmitting, by a digital content delivery system and to a client device, a request for a set of verification data, the request transmitted as part of an account registrations process to verify that a user of the client device is providing accurate information regarding their identity; receiving, from the client device, a subset of the verification 2. data; calculating an overall score based on predetermined values assigned to each type of verification data received from the client device; comparing the overall score to a threshold score; determining that the user has provided sufficient verification data to verify that the user of the client device is providing accurate information regarding their identity when the overall score meets or exceeds the threshold score; and in response to determining (310 - YES) that the user has provided sufficient verification data, generating a user account for the user, and generating a unique identifier for the user account, the user account enabling the user to access digital content maintained by the digital content delivery system, wherein the method further comprises, after generating the user account for the user: receiving a request from the client device to access a first content item maintained by the digital content delivery system; selecting, based on the subset of the verification data received from the client device, at least two items of verification data needed to verify the user; transmitting, to the client device, a request for the at least two items of verification data; and in response to receiving the at least two items of verification data from the client device, providing the first content item to a client-side digital content delivery system associated with the user, wherein the first content item is embedded with the unique identifier for the user account. transmitting, by a digital content delivery system and to a client device, a request for a set of verification data, the request transmitted as part of an account registrations process to verify that a user of the client device is providing accurate information regarding their identity; receiving, from the client device, a subset of the verification 2. data; calculating an overall score based on predetermined values assigned to each type of verification data received from the client device; comparing the overall score to a threshold score; determining that the user has provided sufficient verification data to verify that the user of the client device is providing accurate information regarding their identity when the overall score meets or exceeds the threshold score; and in response to determining (310 - YES) that the user has provided sufficient verification data, generating a user account for the user, and generating a unique identifier for the user account, the user account enabling the user to access digital content maintained by the digital content delivery system, wherein the method further comprises, after generating the user account for the user: receiving a request from the client device to access a first content item maintained by the digital content delivery system; selecting, based on the subset of the verification data received from the client device, at least two items of verification data needed to verify the user; transmitting, to the client device, a request for the at least two items of verification data; and in response to receiving the at least two items of verification data from the client device, providing the first content item to a client-side digital content delivery system associated with the user, wherein the first content item is embedded with the unique identifier for the user account. receiving a request from the client device to access a first content item maintained by the digital content delivery system; selecting, based on the subset of the verification data received from the client device, at least two items of verification data needed to verify the user; transmitting, to the client device, a request for the at least two items of verification data; and in response to receiving the at least two items of verification data from the client device, providing the first content item to a client-side digital content delivery system associated with the user, wherein the first content item is embedded with the unique identifier for the user account.