A new law being negotiated by the EU will ban member states and private companies from implementing such a system.
The problem is that it's basically banning thin air.
China has a six-year plan to build a system rewarding actions that build trust in society. It has only just released a draft law that attempts to codify past social credit pilots.
The local government has removed some of the controversial local experiments, such as one in the small city of Rongcheng in which every resident was given a starting personal credit score of 1,000 that could be increased or decreased by how they act.
These are not applicable to the entire Chinese population. There isn't an all-seeing social credit system in the country.
The central government doesn't seem to have a lot of appetite to build a terrifying system like that.
Most of what has been done is low tech. There are attempts to regulate the financial credit industry, enable government agencies to share data with each other, and promote state-sanctioned moral values.
A report on the subject for the US government was compiled by a partner at Trivium China who couldn't find a single case in which data collection in China led to automated sanctions. According to the South China Morning Post, information gatherers used a pen and paper to write down people's bad behavior.
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