A longtime data privacy lawyer is moving from the consumer retail industry to media.

Meredith Corp., a publicly traded, family-controlled national media company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that Farah Zaman has been named chief privacy officer, effective immediately. She joins Meredith from Colgate-Palmolive Co., where she had served as senior global data privacy counsel for about a year and a half. Prior to that, she was senior counsel for privacy at The Nielsen Co.

In her new role, Zaman will oversee Meredith's privacy compliance, education and protection strategies across all businesses and locations and report to general counsel John Zieser, according to a statement announcing her hire. Zaman is the first person to hold this role at Meredith.