HT4623 I just lost my iPhone 4, then someone picked it up & disable the tracking feature.

Note I just lost my iPhone 4, then someone picked it up & disable the tracking feature in iCloud.
If that person use this stolen iPhone, can apple store trackiong him & blocked him? or even reset the phone status to default. Serial # of this iPhone is 86107QW6A4T.
Note iPhone is now a very personal item in life, we may drop & lost, or even stolen or by attack to kinapped, strongly request Apple can do something to protect their loyalty customers & their image, no one can stole iPhone, no one can use something which not belong to them, once the device is registrate, only change with by actual owner's authorization whne them sell or gift.
Even your turn off the tracking feature of Find My iPhone, but we still can found by seria # with GPS founction. Is this against the law of privacy?

The phone can no longer be tracked by you if it's not signed into your apple id, not even by Apple. It can't be tracked by the serial number either.
The registration of the device can be changed by the person who has access to the serial number, which I know is unfortunate, but that's how it works.
It's against the law to steal an iPhone, for sure.
If the tracking feature of Find my iPhone is turned off, the device is no longer broadcasting a GPS signal. If someone were to sign into the phone with their apple id, it would then be trackable by them but by no one else
It's against Apple's Privacy Policy to access personal information on the phone unless they explicitly need it for troubleshooting purposes. This is unfortunately not one of those instances.
The best thing you can do is call your local law enforcement and report the phone as stolen

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