If "observing what your computer was doing and making <internet> requests" was always legal, then there would be no such thing as illegal hacking, because that

If "observing what your computer was doing and making <internet> requests" was always legal, then there would be no such thing as illegal hacking, because that covers essentially all possible activities one can do with a computer. There may be some who would prefer that world, but it is obviously not the one we live in.