The pressing concerns of data privacy and consent management
The recent paradigm shift into the technological era has digitalized almost everything. Every industry and venture has productively made its web presence. Ranging from education and business to entertainment and fun, every industry has made a shift to the web. Following that, it is evident that it is a necessity of today’s age and time to form a constructive digital presence.
However, despite providing numerous benefits and gains, the technological era encompasses its own set of problems and predicaments. One such worry that those on the internet often face is data privacy and consent management. Also known as information privacy, data privacy refers to the proper handling and exchange of personal, financial, and intellectual data to meet regulatory requirements and protect the confidentiality and immutability of the data. Similarly, consent management refers to the idea of allowing customers to determine what personal data they want to share with a business.
With the increasing developments in technology, there is also an increase in theft of intellectual data and property of individuals without their consent through high-tech software, cookies, and other tracking technologies. Moreover, companies and businesses struggle to make themselves privacy compliant and follow the set guidelines.
To ease the complications of those struggling with data protection and consent management issues, Zahra Shah is playing an unprecedented role. The dynamic entrepreneur is the co-founder, non-executive director and investor at Seers, a leading privacy and consent management platform for companies worldwide.
Seers is trusted by over 50,000+ businesses. Founded in London in 2018 and now with a team spread around the globe. Seers was created to help companies of all sizes meet the ongoing compliance challenges related to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, PECR, CCPA, LGPD etc.
Seers provides innovative solutions covering: consent management, assessments, certifications, policies and documentation. Seers helps companies to protect their data and ensure that they become compliant with data privacy regulations. Seers is focused on transforming the data privacy and consent management sector, making it quicker and simpler for companies to become compliant. That is why they are the fastest-growing privacy and consent management platform.
Zahra is a member of the advisory board at Teamup Angels that acts as an accelerator for startups. She also acquired exceptional management consultancy expertise and has a decade of experience at Accenture within the Financial Services — Capital Markets practice area. Where she helped global Investment Banking clients, including UBS, Credit Suisse, HSBC, RBS & Lloyds Banking Group.
This talented lady believes in empowering, supporting, and helping underrepresented women achieve their goals and pursue their dreams. She wants to help women grow and become financially independent. Zahra believes that women should work flexibly without sacrificing their personal and family life. This is how society and community will benefit as a whole. She encourages women to learn from their mistakes and be inspired by the lessons they can learn from other successful women. They can then in turn explore available opportunities and then inspire, help, and empower other women.
Her community work and exceptional services for women’s wellbeing are also noteworthy. Zahra is an advocate for underrepresented women and also runs a monthly support group initiative for female founders as an alumni of the Google Female Founders Program 2020. She was selected as 1 of 12 female founders of innovative technology ventures across Europe (with a challenging selection process with 100s of candidates) to participate in this prestigious program.
She also stepped down as CEO in June 2019 and currently serves as a Trustee since September 2017 for the ‘The British Pakistani Foundation’ which is a leading ‘BAME’ non-profit organization in the UK.
