The invention discloses a verifiable privacy-preserving data type matching in participatory sensing. A verifiable data type matching problem in participatory sensing is decomposed into two sub problems that are solved by two stages including a user filtering stage and a user verifying stage. At the user filtering stage, a user not meeting a requirement is rejected and user filtering is carried out by using a Bloom filter. And at the user verifying stage, each element of a request data type set is organized into a bit string secret of a requester and a session secret key is generated by using the bit string secrets; only when data types requested by all requesters are owned is a session secret key of a data requester decrypted; and request data type matching verification is completed by using the session secret key. With the method, the data type matching operation can be executed securely and the calculation and communication costs of the two sides can be minimized.