Politic of security, privacy and transparency in human learning systems Adil Jeghal & Lahcen Oughdir & Hamid Tairi # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract The preservation of confidentiality has become a major issue for the majority of applications that process personal information, the sensitivity of this information requires creators to set rules for the sharing and use of access control policies. A great deal of research has already been conducted in educational environments. However, one aspect that has not received much attention is the important role of Information Security, especially in newer education environ- ments such as the e-learning environment. In this article we seek to propose a policy of security in such a way to affect views of profiles for each user to control the information accessed by this user. Keywords Security in e-learning . Privacy in e-learning . Human learning systems . Profile of learners . XML . Access Control . Access Model 1 Introduction The human learning systems (HLS) aim to support the learning in a computer envi- ronment, these systems manipulating among other personal data, the abusive exploita- tion by a user of an insufficiently protected HLS can allow the disclosure of intimate personal data. Educ Inf Technol DOI 10.1007/s10639-014-9336-6 A. Jeghal (*) : H. Tairi LIIAN, Department of Informatics Faculty of Science Dhar-Mahraz, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, P.B 1796, Atlas-Fez, Morocco e-mail: adil.jeghal@usmba.ac.ma H. Tairi e-mail: htairi@yahoo.fr L. Oughdir LIMAO, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Polydisciplinary Faculty -Taza, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Taza, Morocco e-mail: lahcen.oughdir@usmba.ac.ma