Luxembourg's digital regulator, ALIA, has fined LiveJasmin's parent company €25,000 for failing to enforce age verification, marking a second sanction.
Luxembourg’s national digital regulator, the Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l'audiovisuel (ALIA), has fined LiveJasmin’s parent company a total of €25,000 for age verification noncompliance. This marks the second sanction against LiveJasmin operators within a year for similar violations.
ALIA announced late last month that it had fined the parent company of cam site LiveJasmin. The fine was issued to JWS Americas S.à.r.l. and JWS International S.à.r.l., which operate LiveJasmin in Luxembourg and across various European Union member states. ALIA, also known as the Luxembourg Independent Audiovisual Authority, stated that these companies failed to enforce age-gating as required by Luxembourg law.
The immediate action by ALIA addresses a violation of the country's Electronic Media Law and the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA). The fine, which totals approximately $28,000 on current exchange rates, follows an investigation that indicated the adult camming platform was inconsistent with enforcement and did not meet local and transnational standards for users logging on from IP addresses in Luxembourg and other EU member states.
ALIA initiated its investigation into LiveJasmin following a complaint from a parent. This parent expressed "concern about the 'level of unrestricted access available on the LiveJasmin website.'" The parent stated that their son was able to access content on the platforms without an account or subscription, which they viewed as "extremely inappropriate and deeply concerning." ALIA officials allege that LiveJasmin and its associated companies did not cooperate during the investigation that led to the penalty.
The investigation examined access conditions to the service across all European Union member states, aligning with ALIA's responsibilities under the EU’s Digital Services Act. ALIA found that users in various countries encountered differing levels of access to explicit content on LiveJasmin before encountering a paywall, verification, or registration requirement. The agency deemed this a violation of the Electronic Media Law and its August 2025 ruling, which followed a previous investigation into the site’s compliance with audiovisual rules.
JWS representatives argued that violations identified during the investigation were isolated breaches of content policies. They also stated that age verification measures had been standardized across most EU member states. However, ALIA stated that measures in other member states were not sufficient to meet the demands of the national government. ALIA explained that "The providers (JWS) have not uniformly deployed age verification systems in all [EU] member states and continue to adopt a differentiated approach based on national legal frameworks. In Austria, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands, the providers have not implemented any age-verification system.”
This is the latest fine in an ongoing series of regulatory actions initiated against the company in August 2025. The initial investigation came in the context of ALIA being tasked with enforcing laws that "requires video-sharing platforms (hereinafter 'VSPs') to implement appropriate measures to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, mental, or moral development, notably, through the implementation of user age verification systems."
JWS and its various sister companies, such as Byborg Enterprises, are held by Docler Holding. Docler Holding was founded by Hungarian billionaire György Gattyán and is headquartered outside Luxembourg City, near the Grand Ducal golf club.
Government officials in Luxembourg previously rejected a French government request to help enforce France’s Security and Regulation of the Digital Space (SREN) law by taking action against LiveJasmin. French media regulator Arcom is enforcing age verification rules for site operators based in France and non-EU countries. Although Arcom is scheduled to begin applying those rules to platforms based in other EU countries as of June 7, France targeted Luxembourg-based LiveJasmin as early as December 2024.
In late December, French authorities alleged that LiveJasmin lacked age verification as mandated under SREN. They asked Luxembourg authorities to take action against Docler Holding and require it to implement the age verification measures required under SREN. In response, Luxembourg officials asked ALIA to investigate "whether LiveJasmin complies with the Grand Duchy’s obligations to protect minors." However, officials rejected the idea that Luxembourg is obligated to enforce French laws, stating that Luxembourg was "defending its sovereignty and the EU common internal market." A Luxembourg Economy Ministry official stated, "There is absolutely no discussion as to whether it is important or necessary to do something [about children easily viewing porn]. Of course something has to be done. But we have to do it in a legal and appropriate manner. We cannot c."
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