The Swedish pharmacies Apoteket AB and Apohem AB have together been fined a total of SKr 45m ($4.4m) for GDPR failures when using the so-called Meta pixel on their websites and then transferring privacy-sensitive personal data to Meta.
The sensitive data included information about the purchase of over-the-counter medicines, self-tests,
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