[hkmurakami]

>For example, you may have to go "inspect" a physical copy of the company's records at the company rather than receiving anything electronically

Last year, I learned that a similar law was invoked by college students to gain access to their application files kept by the University Registrar [1]. The student, upon making the information request, would go into the registrar office and "inspect a physical copy" of the file, just like you said.

[1] My alma mater wrote to me about this since a student I had interviewed as part of the application process had made this request, and my report was part of "his file".