I'm beginning to feel as if after I'd put my Android phone though a metal shredder that the individual remaining atoms will somehow still have my ID on them à

I'm beginning to feel as if after I'd put my Android phone though a metal shredder that the individual remaining atoms will somehow still have my ID on them à la QM's conservation of information. It's been clear to me for quite some while that the whole notion of trying to achieve privacy on the internet is broken - the paradigm we're now using (and have always been using) to achieve privacy is wrong. As no matter what steps we take - such as making browsers more private and less fingerprint prone to, say, sandboxing apps etc., etc. - someone sooner or later will always find ways around our best defenses. As it stands, it's an ongoing incremental battle over privacy that we citizens can never have any long-term certainty about. Somehow our ID and personal data have to be separated from the hardware, software, means of transmission and IP addresses, etc. in ways that any chance of ever linking them are not just difficult but are also logically impossible. It's only then that we'd be in a situation where no matter the amount of hacking the 'system' would ever reveal or encroach upon users' privacy. This wallpaper example may still be somewhat of a stretch to implement in practice but chances are it won't be so in the future; its existence only goes to illustrate my point. If anyone ever manages to solve the problem in an easy implementable way then he/she will either be deemed a hero genius or a pariah. Which of these views one has will depend on which side of the political fence one's sitting.