More permissions are not the right answer. Too many and users get conditioned to blindly clicking accept.
It depends how the question is framed and presented. If the permission prompt is modal and the user believes that they will be prevented from accessing the application unless they click Yes, then they will always click Yes.
But if the website loads first and then they are asked for permission to load some additional feature, they are much less likely to reflexively click Yes rather than to press X to close the non-modal.
I read that as Management (PHB) wanted that but some how the implementing engineer got them to do it the respectful way.