The document discusses the need for privacy-preserving information sharing in distributed information brokering systems (IBSS) due to vulnerabilities in existing models that assume broker trustworthiness. It proposes a novel system, Privacy Preserving Information Brokering (PPIB), that includes innovative techniques like automaton segmentation and query segment encryption to enhance privacy by decoupling query routing responsibilities among coordinated brokers. The approach aims to prevent metadata leakage while providing efficient and secure query processing with minimal overhead.