Aufzeichnung vom 26. Mai 2026:

Keber Quarterly: Neues Landesdatenschutzgesetz, neue Regeln für die Videoüberwachung: Was gilt, was gilt nicht?

Über die Veranstaltung:
Darf ein städtisches Schwimmbad Videokameras für mehr Sicherheit im Badebetrieb einsetzen? Darf es dabei Künstliche Intelligenz nutzen? Wird der Pausenhof der Schule zur videoüberwachten Zone? Können Müllcontainer videoüberwacht werden, um illegale Müllablagerungen zu unterbinden? Im Februar 2026 hat das Parlament die Novellierung des Landesdatenschutzgesetzes verabschiedet. Eine zentrale Neuerung ist, dass der Anwendungsbereich für die Videoüberwachung durch öffentliche Stellen erweitert wurde. Das Gesetz liefert aber keinen Freifahrtschein zur Videoüberwachung, sondern die Vorgaben sind genau zu analysieren.

Was steht im Gesetz? Was nicht? Was müssen Verantwortliche in den Rathäusern beachten, wenn sie rechtskonform Videoüberwachung einsetzen wollen? In seiner offenen Sprechstunde am 26. Mai 2026 erläuterte der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg und 2026 Vorsitzender der Datenschutzkonferenz Prof. Dr. Tobias Keber, was im neuen Landesdatenschutzgesetz zur Videoüberwachung steht und diskutierte mit allen Interessierten, was diese neuen Regelungen konkret für die Praxis bedeuten.

Die Rechtsgrundlage, über die in der offenen Sprechstunde diskutiert wird, ist § 18 Absatz 1 Landesdatenschutzgesetz neue Fassung. Im Februar 2026 hat der Landesbeauftragte eine Kurzübersicht veröffentlicht, wie die neuen Regelungen zur Videoüberwachung einzuordnen sind: Die Übersicht „Update kompakt: Videoüberwachung – Was Verantwortliche jetzt beachten müssen“ steht auf der Website des LfDI BW: lfdi-bw.de/videoueberwachung-n…

00:00:08: Einführung
00:01:57 Grundrechtsrelevanz bei Videoüberwachung
00:06:58: Warum ist die Prüfung streng?
00:08:40 DS-GVO und LDSG: Öffnungsklausel, kein Freibrief.
00:09:16 Was steht in § 18 LDSG?
00:13:00 Anwendungsbereich: Wer fällt unter § 18 Abs. 1 LDSG?
00:15:59 „Flucht“ ins LDSG ist unzulässig §18 Abs. 1 LDSG oder §44 Abs 3 PolG?
00:19:23 Tatbestandsvoraussetzungen §18 Abs. 1 LDSG
00:25:20 „Privilegierte“ Überwachungsobjekte §18 Abs. 3
00:27:12 Hausrecht §18 LDSG
00:28:19 Technisch-organisatorische Mindestanforderungen
00:30:48 Tatbestandsvoraussetzungen und Anwendung §18 Abs. 6 LDSG:
00:33:52 Beispiele § 18 Abs. LDSG
00:40:46 Leitlinien für die Umsetzung
00:42:44 Literaturtipps
00:44:20 Fragerunde: Müllcontainer / Altkleidercontainer
00:48:00 Fragerunde: „Flächendeckende Überwachung“ mit KI? Beispiel Mannheim
00:50:00 Fragerunde: Transparenzhinweise Videoüberwachung
00:53:25 Fragerunde: Videoüberwachung Polizeieinsatz
00:54:46 Fragerunde: Hausrecht (Klingel/Kamera)
00:56:08 Fragerunde: Speicherdauer Aufnahmen
00:58:34 Fragerunde: Rechtliche Bewertung KI Überwachung Schwimmbad
01:01:46 Fragerunde: Biometrische Fernidentifikation
01:03:30 Fragerunde: Anforderungen „abstrakte Gefahrenlage“
01:05:54 Fragerunde: Transparenzpflichten - Barrierefreiheit: Hinweise für Seheingeschränkte
01:07:01 Nachfrage: Biometrische Fernidentifikation – „zeitlich versetzt“
01:07:36 Nachfrage Hausrecht (Klingel/Kamera) – Türspion?
01:09:40 Fragerunde: Mobile Blitzer
01:12:30 Nachfrage: Transparenzpflichten - Barrierefreiheit: Hinweise für Seheingeschränkte
01:14:40 Abschluss

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As the world is more uncertain than ever, we all need tools we can trust and control: at home, at work, at the city administration that processes our documents, or at the school our kids go to. There are many reasons we care about personal privacy and digital freedom, autonomy and resilience of our society that depends on public IT infrastructure.

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As Mastodon celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, the open source platform’s new Executive Director, Felix Hlatky, is focused on what it’ll take to make the next 10 years even more impactful.
That vision includes an overhaul in version 5.0, a new feature called Collections, and continuing its critical role at the heart of the fediverse.
Highlights of the conversation include:

00:56 What Felix is most excited about right now
02:11 Felix’s Mastodon history
04:16 Mastodon’s growth and organizational change
08:10 Getting set up for success
10:27 Collections — a major new feature
15:18 Lesson to learn from Bluesky
17:05 Weaponization, privacy, nuances around collections
19:35 Making social media more manageable
21:00 Groups
23:44 Power of building at the protocol level
25:40 Collaborations across platforms and protocols
27:27 Bridging technologies and standards work
31:15 Mastodon’s backend infrastructure
33:56 Funding and the EU
37:27 Governments use of Mastodon
40:05 The Forkiverse
45:05 Podcasts in the fediverse
47:14 Custom feeds on Surf, ex dotsocial.surf.social
49:58 Vibrant creator communities on the social web
51:20 Mastodon 5.0, FASPS
53:59 Entering a new era

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Over the past year Modal Collective has been working towards bringing local-first sync to native GNOME apps. As part of this, we built Reflection, a collaborative GTK notes app, improved p2panda APIs and documentation, organized developer events, and did user testing.

Another important part of this project was thinking about new user interfaces paradigms. Building complex local-first apps requires answering a lot of new, difficult questions in order to do seemingly simple things. How do you save and and delete documents? What does it mean to have a user account? How do you manage groups and permissions? What novel threats do we need to consider?

This talk is about some of the design work done as part of the Reflection project. This includes user interface experiments that are not implemented yet, questions we don't have clear answers to at the moment, and what we think needs solving most urgently.

Tobias is a member of the GNOME design team, the Circle committee, and Modal Collective. Most recently he's been working on Reflection, a local-first collaborative notes app built on p2panda. He's a fan of ultrabold type, coherent spatial models, and keeping fossil fuels in the ground.

The Linux App Summit (LAS) brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, panels, and Q&A sessions, we encourage attendees to share ideas, make connections, and join our goal of building a common app ecosystem.

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How do you get started with Nextcloud? Watch our walkthrough to see how you can use Nextcloud as a home user, a small business, or an enterprise, from free signup to scaled enterprise deployment.

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Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Reclaim your digital autonomy 🔑 Nextcloud Keynote

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Reclaim your digital autonomy

What’s new in Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter:

🌐 Growing sovereignty: new federation features, improved data export and import
💬 Nextcloud Talk: live translations, pinned messages, scheduling
🔎 Office document comparison
🧑‍🎨 Whiteboard: comments, reactions, timers
✨ Nextcloud Assistant performance upgrade and AI labeling
🔐 Powerful E2EE in the web interface
💪 Speed up with the ADA engine
... and many more improvements in all apps!

Read more about Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter in the release blog post: nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-h…

Experience Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter with a live demo on February 25: nextcloud.com/blog/event/nextc…

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
02:36 Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter
03:35 Nextcloud’s design principles
06:10 Performance and ADA engine
08:50 Modular monolith architecture
16:34 Security
20:36 Maintenance work
21:04 Nextcloud Files: File sync & share
22:10 Improved E2EE in browser
24:33 Who controls your data: new migration tools
25:55 Federation in Nextcloud
28:52 Performance and scalability
29:06 Nextcloud Files: Clients for desktop and mobile
30:50 Nextcloud Talk: chat and meetings
31:45 Federation in Nextcloud Talk
32:35 Pinned and scheduled messages
33:55 Live translations in calls
34:38 Nextcloud Mail: Email in Nextcloud
36:11 Favorite threads
37:00 Nextcloud Calendar: Event scheduling and planning
37:50 Nextcloud Office: Collabora integration
39:05 Design and usability updates
39:55 Document Comparison
41:42 Sheet Views
43:58 Nextcloud Whiteboard for brainstorming and learning
47:09 Nextcloud Text: Markdown editor
49:15 Easy switching between office options
50:04 Nextcloud Assistant and AI
53:34 AI content labeling
54:41 Nextcloud Flow: Automation tools
57:13 Nextcloud Tables: Data organization
58:20 Nextcloud Platform: Ecosystem, API and apps
59:55 API updates
1:01:45 New apps and integrations
1:05:07 Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Summary
1:05:50 How to deploy and migrate
1:09:11 Closing remarks

Featuring:

Frank Karlitschek — CEO and Founder of Nextcloud
Jos Poortvliet — Vice President Communications and Co-Founder
Dereck Castellon — Marketing Manager
Greta Doçi — Support Team Lead
Simon Lindner — Software Engineer
Camila San Martin Ayres — Software Engineer
Michael Meeks — CEO of Collabora Productivity

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France's Ministry of Education needed to bring a solution used across individual academies to a single national platform, without losing control of the infrastructure or the data.

Today, the French Ministry of Education runs a Nextcloud instance scaled for 1.2 million employees. That includes teachers and administrators across central and regional services.

What made Nextcloud a platform of choice?
🔐 Independently running service: no third party can shut down the service
🌍 Full data sovereignty: the Ministry controls all user data and infrastructure
🛠️ Collaboration with Nextcloud on roadmap and feature development

The ministry deployed federated Nextcloud on its own data centers. Open source drove the decision: it means no vendor lock in or external dependency could dictate the terms. More than that, the Ministry could sit at the table with Nextcloud on roadmap decisions and help us shape the offering for large-sclae educational setups.

Today, 337,000 staff use Nextcloud daily for file sync and sharing.

Thank you to Benoît Piédallu, national project manager of Shared Digital Services at the French Ministry of Education, for the interview.

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Enjoy the eleventh episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, we dive into a major transformation of Blender’s server room. The editor and director – documentary filmmaker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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Enjoy the tenth episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, the Blender team travels to Vancouver to join SIGGRAPH 2025. The editor and director – documentary filmmaker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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Developing for Nextcloud or planning to try? Our latest updates in Nextcloud developer platform bring many API updates, new frameworks, and a few new community apps.

Nextcloud is designed as a flexible platform that integrates with existing IT ecosystems (identity management, document systems, sector-specific apps) rather than replacing them. It can be extended and adapted without forcing you to adapt to Nextcloud.

What does Nextcloud Platform offer? 🛠️

👉 Nextcloud Platform delivers stable APIs, a clean app framework, and predictable interfaces for developers. Developers can build custom integrations or apps using the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) API, enabling automation and connection with external systems.

👉 APIs are well-documented and stable over time, with tools like the OCS viewer to easily explore, test, and implement API functions.

Key API updates in Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter include:
• Breaking changes in Files API (v4.0.0): expanded context object, destructured parameters
• New web component-based Sidebar API replacing OCA.Files.Sidebar
• Profile app migrated to Vue3 with framework-agnostic API
• Updates in the database-related APIs
• New mount point API
• Snowflake ID support

New apps by community developers:
• iTop ticketing system: integrated into Nextcloud workflows with ability to search, link, and manage tickets.
• Attendance: event tracking, real-time check-ins, reminders, and dashboards.

Wish to get started with Nextcloud Platform? We welcome you to to build new features for Nextcloud apps and develop external integrations. Learn more in our developer program: nextcloud.com/developer/

Want to see more?

🔑 Rewatch the Nextcloud Keynote: See how the new Hub expands your choices, strengthens your control, and protects your digital autonomy: peertube.nextcloud.com/w/kHaPa…

🎯 Short on time? Rewatch the Nextcloud Spotlight for a more focused look at the latest updates to reclaim your digital autonomy: peertube.nextcloud.com/w/ktnS7…

👀 Prefer reading? Discover our release blog: nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-winter

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2026-02-18 13:00:35

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Reclaim your digital autonomy 🔑 Nextcloud Keynote

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Reclaim your digital autonomy

What’s new in Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter:

🌐 Growing sovereignty: new federation features, improved data export and import
💬 Nextcloud Talk: live translations, pinned messages, scheduling
🔎 Office document comparison
🧑‍🎨 Whiteboard: comments, reactions, timers
✨ Nextcloud Assistant performance upgrade and AI labeling
🔐 Powerful E2EE in the web interface
💪 Speed up with the ADA engine
... and many more improvements in all apps!

Read more about Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter in the release blog post: nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-h…

Experience Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter with a live demo on February 25: nextcloud.com/blog/event/nextc…

Experience the brand new Nextcloud Hub — get it now: nextcloud.com/instant-trial/

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
02:36 Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter
03:35 Nextcloud’s design principles
06:10 Performance and ADA engine
08:50 Modular monolith architecture
16:34 Security
20:36 Maintenance work
21:04 Nextcloud Files: File sync & share
22:10 Improved E2EE in browser
24:33 Who controls your data: new migration tools
25:55 Federation in Nextcloud
28:52 Performance and scalability
29:06 Nextcloud Files: Clients for desktop and mobile
30:50 Nextcloud Talk: chat and meetings
31:45 Federation in Nextcloud Talk
32:35 Pinned and scheduled messages
33:55 Live translations in calls
34:38 Nextcloud Mail: Email in Nextcloud
36:11 Favorite threads
37:00 Nextcloud Calendar: Event scheduling and planning
37:50 Nextcloud Office: Collabora integration
39:05 Design and usability updates
39:55 Document Comparison
41:42 Sheet Views
43:58 Nextcloud Whiteboard for brainstorming and learning
47:09 Nextcloud Text: Markdown editor
49:15 Easy switching between office options
50:04 Nextcloud Assistant and AI
53:34 AI content labeling
54:41 Nextcloud Flow: Automation tools
57:13 Nextcloud Tables: Data organization
58:20 Nextcloud Platform: Ecosystem, API and apps
59:55 API updates
1:01:45 New apps and integrations
1:05:07 Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter: Summary
1:05:50 How to deploy and migrate
1:09:11 Closing remarks

Featuring:

Frank Karlitschek — CEO and Founder of Nextcloud
Jos Poortvliet — Vice President Communications and Co-Founder
Dereck Castellon — Marketing Manager
Greta Doçi — Support Team Lead
Simon Lindner — Software Engineer
Camila San Martin Ayres — Software Engineer
Michael Meeks — CEO of Collabora Productivity

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This short film about signwriting veteran Stan Wilkinson is the third in the ‘When Better Letters Met’ series. It was shot in 2018 and first screened at the London Design Festival on 19 September 2018.

Credits
Visit bl.ag/stan for the complete list of credits and more about the film’s story.
- Filmed & Directed by Adrian Harrison
- Producer: Sam Roberts
- Production Assistant: Lydia Blagden
- Lettering Artwork: Joby Carter

With thanks to Colossal Media and Right Way Signs of Chicago for their sponsorship of this series of films. And, of course, Stan Wilkinson and his wife Janet, for their patience in bringing the project together.