OBS_VALUE: As from 2020, the law provides that personal information processors in a country that restricts cross-border transfer of personal information to foreign countries, may face  corresponding reciprocal restrictions. As from 2023 the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) empowers the regulator to issue a binding order to suspend an ongoing PI transfer overseas that either (i) is non-compliant with specific PIPA requirements, or (ii) is to a transferee, or to a country, whose PI protection standards are seen as so inadequate, alongside those under PIPA, as to threaten harm to the data subject.