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David Miranda told the BBC he felt very threatened during his detention
A Brazilian man held for nine hours at Heathrow under anti-terror laws says he "feels invaded" after divulging his email and social media passwords.
David Miranda said his interrogators threatened he could go to prison if he did not co-operate.
Mr Miranda is the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who has covered stories based on leaks by US whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Mr Miranda is challenging the legality of his detention.
He wants his confiscated electronic equipment returned and assurances that his private data will not be distributed on to other parties.
Mr Miranda told the BBC he was forced to disclose his passwords.
"I am very angry. This feeling of invasion. It's like I'm naked in front of a crowd," he said. "They said I had to co-operate or else I was going to jail."
'Entire life'A Downing Street spokesman has said Number 10 was "kept abreast" of the decision to detain Mr Miranda, 28, who was held on Sunday on his way from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with Mr Greenwald.
End Quote Danny Savage BBC home affairs correspondentIt's unclear at this stage if Mr Miranda's lawyers will seek an immediate court hearing to order a freeze on the inspection of the items or whether they will give police and the Home Office more time"
The Guardian said he had been carrying "journalistic materials" but was not an employee of the newspaper.
Mr Greenwald has broken stories about state surveillance with information from fugitive Mr Snowden who used to work as a contractor at the US National Security Agency.
In Germany, Mr Miranda had been staying with US film-maker Laura Poitras, who has also reportedly been working on the Snowden files with the Guardian.
He told the BBC he did not know what he was carrying.
"Laura and Glenn are both journalists and I trust them. It never occurred to me that anything I would be carrying was material for terrorists," he told the BBC.
Mr Miranda said he was held in a room and questioned by six agents about his "entire life".
His lawyers said they confiscated his laptop, an additional hard drive, two memory sticks, a mobile phone, a smart watch and a video games console.
Mr Miranda was detained under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
This allows police to hold someone at an airport, port or international railway station for up to nine hours for questioning about whether they have been involved with acts of terrorism.
Under schedule 7, if someone fails to co-operate they are deemed to have committed a criminal offence and could face up to three months in prison, a fine or both.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the police must act if someone had "highly sensitive, stolen information".
Scotland Yard maintained the detention was "legally and procedurally sound".
But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the government still had questions to answer about the incident.
"First of all the Home Office said it wasn't a matter for them at all, then they admitted the Home Office and ministers were fully briefed," she said.
"And we still don't know on whose legal advice this crucial decision was taken to use terrorism powers."
Intelligence expertsMr Miranda's law firm Bindmans has written to the home secretary and the Metropolitan Police commissioner for assurances that "there will be no inspection, copying, disclosure, transfer, distribution or interference, in any way, with our client's data pending determination of our client's claim".
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Savage said it was understood the Home Office and Met Police had not given any undertaking that they would not inspect Mr Miranda's computer, mobile phone and memory sticks.
A deadline set by Mr Miranda's lawyers for such undertakings to be given expired on Tuesday, in advance of potential legal action, he said.
"It's unclear at this stage if Mr Miranda's lawyers will seek an immediate court hearing to order a freeze on the inspection of the items or whether they will give police and the Home Office more time. Either way, the likelihood is that this case will end up in court," our correspondent said.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that Prime Minister David Cameron ordered Britain's top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, to contact the Guardian about material it had obtained from Mr Snowden.
The discussions resulted in the newspaper destroying computer hard drives, which stored the information, in July - under the supervision of intelligence experts from GCHQ.
It is understood the files had already been copied, and the Guardian is expected to continue pursuing the Snowden story, but from the US. Mr Snowden is currently in Russia after the state granted him temporary asylum.
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