The growth and development of learning analytics has placed a range of new capacities into the hands of educational institutions.This increased capacity has raised a range of ethical issues addressed by developing an ethical code of conduct for practitioners. Such codes of conduct are drawn from similar codes in other disciplines. This paper consists of an analysis of ethical codes from other disciplines. Some authors assert that there are fundamental tenets common to all such codes, but this analysis argues that while there is some overlap, there is no set of principles common to all disciplines.