I wouldn't say it's an adaption but applying Hubbard policy of phone calls have no memory, hence record everything on phone calls. If you know what I mean. It's diabolical and hard to understand, as is everything Hubbard did.
Yes, I'm familiar with the original LRH phone policies. But my take here is that they were compelled to adopt a centralized monitoring system because people were using the phones to implement their exit strategies. It was another hole in the fence that needed plugging.
BTW, anybody who was anybody had a phone in their office way before cell phones were a thing. Only lower level people didn't have phones but even they generally had internal intercom phones. Hubbard probably would like for there to be no phones, everything on paper and using his
ideal HCO comm system from the same intergalactic society that never developed a Qualifications Division but that never quite jived with his "speed of particle flow alone determines power" principle.
This must have them so conflicted. They need to recruit young people who are accustomed to not just basic flip phones but sophisticated data phones and laptops and the internet and they are in a constant struggle to drag these people back into the stone ages while telling them they are the most advanced group on the planet.
Bree blew while on mission. Missions are another self defeating anomaly. Hubbard liked them because he could use them to implement his programs directly into any org bypassing all levels of management. But what missions really are are an admission that the org board doesn't work. The organization is constantly in such a state of disarray, confusion and being internally torn apart that the only way to get anything done is with missions. But the thing about missions is they also introduce staff to other possibilities. It gets them out of their rut, driving around, using phones, interacting with the outside world, granting higher levels of authority to people who are generally lower level. And then like Bree they take off. The missionaire turns their highly focused and dedicated missionaire training towards making it go right and getting the hell out of there. Blow target completion, send compliance report to Chris, get assigned Power Change and join the big SP party.
Tell the recovery team to go pound sand and call the police on them.
Start living!