By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Updated 1236 GMT (2036 HKT) July 3, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. As Black Lives Matter protests swept across the United States, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft took a stand: They halted sales of facial recognition technology to American police departments, and called on the government to regulate the powerful emerging technology. While their announcements made headlines, these tech giants aren’t the top suppliers of facial recognition software used by law enforcement, meaning police departments will still be able to buy from plenty of vendors. Clearview AI, Japan’s NEC and Ayonix, Germany’s Cognitec and Australia’s iOmniscient have all said they intend to maintain their relationships with US police forces. “I don’t think taking technology away from [the police] is going to solve the problem,” iOmniscient CEO Rustom Kanga told CNN Business. iOmniscient makes systems that can detect faces and analyze behavior in a crowd, and says its technology has been deployed by companies and governments in over 50 countries. Kanga supports protests against excessive force by police, and sees some behavior by US officers as “unduly brutal.” But ultimately, he said, this is a…