There's one more word that often goes with information: regarding. "on" can be used that way too - "I found it on the Internet!" "in"/"at" - standard locations, where the information was found. He called a drug dealer yesterday, and we have the call recording implying he wants to buy some drugs. Compromising information.įinally, we got some compromising information on Fisher. Proofs against given person in an investigation. There's one more case when you use strictly on: Dirt. Still, in a great many cases you can use the two interchangeably. It sheds some light but it doesn't relate to her directly. That's indirect information, a hint, something that tells us she wasn't there then, but doesn't tell us anything directly. You wouldn't say information on Mary in the above example. I have new (or, a new piece of) information about Mary: Her boyfriend was yesterday at her flat at 8PM and there was no one there, lights off, door locked, no car.
While "on" will be always information directly "on" the subject - the direct data like name, own properties, things relating directly, "about" can relate indirectly. They are practically identical, with only subtle differences in rare cases. Now, the subtle difference between "on" and "about". "From" or "By" will be much more natural. "The disk contains information of Sony on their newest mp3 player" - but I don't think you'd ever encounter it in real life.
You might try to use it to indicate owner of the information, but that's really awkward. Normally you'd say "important information" or "urgent information", but the of form is a well-accepted formal phrasing. This doesn't speak about the subject, the actual content of the information but about the information itself: 'of questionable value', 'of no interest to me', 'of utmost urgency'. The intercepted information was of little merit. The documents contain information of great importance.
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