There is a check at this line : https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-livetable/xwiki-platform-livetable-ui/src/main/resources/XWiki/LiveTableResultsMacros.xml#L82 to make sure that the email filter is not applied in case the emails are obfuscated, but the email is not obfuscated when being displayed in the livetable results. This is why it doesn't make sense to skip / remove the email filtering for admins, unless the emails in the results should be obfuscated for administrators and the bug is actually at this line : https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-livetable/xwiki-platform-livetable-ui/src/main/resources/XWiki/LiveTableResultsMacros.xml#L510C50-L510C59 .