Ivanka Trump hit the headlines last week for using her personal email for White House business.
There was a fear she’d been sending classified information over a private system and by doing so, potentially cause a threat to the US security system.
But it’s not actually illegal. In the US, personal accounts are able to be used for government business, providing any official correspondence is forwarded to a work account within 20 days for preservation. The relevant Acts state that this step is to ensure official records are not beyond the reach of journalists, lawmakers and others who seek publicly available information.
This is an important practice for all of us in business too.