legitimate interest

A legal ground in the GDPR (glossary)GDPR General Data Protection Regulation The European Union data protection law that led to hiding personal data in WHOIS. Full definition of GDPR for processing personal data. When a trademark owner or security researcher asks for hidden registration data (glossary)registration data The information kept about a domain and its owner. Full definition of registration data, the registrar (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar can rely on it to disclose. It must first weigh the requestor's interest against the registrant (glossary)registrant The person or organization that holds a domain name registration. Full definition of registrant's privacy rights, case by case. Public authorities cannot rely on it for their official tasks.