'shred of information' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a small amount of information that is typically dispersed or scattered, such as a tiny scrap of paper or a single word in a long sentence. For example, "The detective had only a shred of information to go on, but it was enough to solve the case."
Mr. Condit has given the police "every shred of information" they requested, Mr. Lowell said, echoing what the assistant police chief of the District of Columbia said repeatedly at a news conference yesterday.
As we've argued, smartphones that lock away every shred of information could inhibit law enforcement far more than we really want, however unpalatable the prospect of the FBI rifling through your device is.
In some cases, the quality of the tips is lagging as people grasp for any shred of information that might result in an arrest.
In many ways, Facebook is a data processor, archiving and analyzing every shred of information, including its users' interests, locations and every article and link that they "like".
The uncertainty had the traders grabbing at, and then second-guessing, every shred of information and rumor flying through the market.
(Indeed the program book, which had biographies of every performer onstage, failed to provide a shred of information about the composers or about the diminutive orchestra led by James Demster).
Such shreds of information, of course, are no more than informed conjecture.
Hospitals throughout the city would fill with patients as their relatives sobbed in overcrowded waiting rooms, desperate for shreds of information.
For years, Web companies have been trying to gather shreds of information about users in order to show them ads for things they are most likely to buy.
What little it does provide – shreds of information, atrocious design, the ability to say that you visited the oldest.com – amounts to a tourist attraction consisting of a plaque and a souvenir stand.
In the vacuum, the tiniest shreds of information related to the HQ2 search are being examined with a level of scrutiny normally reserved for the Zapruder film or Bryce Harper's coming free agency.
