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Racial profiling is still going on, and still needs to be fought. There are still attempts to pass laws that try to make it legal. (I won't get into examples, because this is a subject fraught with controversy.)
The "rule of law" is an ideal, not fully existing anywhere in the world. But I think it is an ideal worth striving for. Getting back to the OP, the government asking for online services to be prepared to support legal, court-ordered surveillance seems sensible. I oppose warrantless wiretapping or other surveillance in all forms, but we have a court process requiring probable cause for surveillance or search, and it seems reasonable to me that this would apply to digital communications.
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