San Francisco police commissioners on Wednesday will consider a crypto billionaire’s offer of nearly $9.4 million to fund increased surveillance efforts , reigniting questions about the ethics of both the controversial technology and large private donations for public programs.

The funds would come from cryptocurrency company Ripple and the San Francisco Police Community Foundation, a nonprofit created by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, who has been a prominent supporter of new SFPD technology efforts.

If approved, the donation would provide new downtown office space for the Police Department’s surveillance unit, dubbed the Real Time Investigations Center, and funding for a dozen officer-operated drones to add to the fleet it brought online last summer, among other technology.

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