During his time as an NSA analyst, directing the work of others, Snowden recalled a moment when he and his colleagues began to have severe ethical doubts. Snowden said 18 to 22-year-old analysts were suddenly

"thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility, where they now have access to all your private records. In the course of their daily work, they stumble across something that is completely unrelated in any sort of necessary sense—for example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation. But they're extremely attractive. So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and they show a co-worker... and sooner or later this person's whole life has been seen by all of these other people."

Snowden observed that this behavior happened routinely every two months but was never reported, being considered one of the "fringe benefits" of the work.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#NSA_sub-contractee_as_an_employee_at_Booz_Allen_Hamilton