By Victoria Woollaston PUBLISHED: 09:13 EST, 8 August 2013 | UPDATED: 09:27 EST, 8 August 2013 Apple is following Google's lead by adding a feature to its upcoming operating system that can track a user's every step. German security firm Protecus has found a setting in the fifth beta release of Apple's iOS 7 software called Feature Locations that tracks a user's GPS coordinates over time and plots them on a map. This news comes after code was discovered in Google's Android 4.3 software that lets devices scan for nearby networks, in order to determine a person's location, even when Wi-Fi is turned off.
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Apple's iOS 7 software includes a feature that collects GPS coordinates
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These coordinates are mapped to show users where they've been
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The company says it will only use these coordinates to improve Maps
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