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.