Tracking device functionality restriction in a lost context

A tracking server, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed, cause the tracking server to perform steps comprising:
• determining, by the tracking server, that the tracking device is lost, the tracking server configured to determine that the tracking device is lost based at least in part in response to determining that a mobile device associated with the tracking device has not communicatively coupled to the tracking device for more than a threshold amount of time, the tracking device comprising a camera with one or more camera functions and one or more wireless communication functions;
• in response to determining that the tracking device is lost, disabling, by the tracking server, one or more of the camera functions of the tracking device using a disable signal sent to the tracking device via a second mobile device within a communicative range of the tracking device;
• in response to a passage of a second threshold interval of time after determining that the tracking device is lost without communicatively coupling to the mobile device, disabling, by the tracking server, one or more of the wireless communication functions tracking device;
• and
• in response to subsequently communicatively coupling to the mobile device, automatically enabling, by the tracking server, all disabled camera functions and communication functions of the tracking device;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for disabling a feature of a tracking device, the instructions, when executed by a processor of a tracking server, configured to cause the processor to perform steps comprising:

• determining, by the tracking server, that the tracking device is lost, the tracking server configured to determine that the tracking device is lost based at least in part in response to determining that a mobile device associated with the tracking device has not communicatively coupled to the tracking device for more than a threshold amount of time, the tracking device comprising a camera with one or more camera functions and one or more wireless communication functions;
• in response to determining that the tracking device is lost, disabling, by the tracking server, one or more of the camera functions of the tracking device using a disable signal sent to the tracking device via a second mobile device within a communicative range of the tracking device;
• in response to a passage of a second threshold interval of time after determining that the tracking device is lost without communicatively coupling to the mobile device, disabling, by the tracking server, one or more of the wireless communication functions tracking device;
• and
• in response to subsequently communicatively coupling to the mobile device, automatically enabling, by the tracking server, all disabled camera functions and communication functions of the tracking device.