Amazon will stop selling its facial recognition technology to police — but only for a year.

The move follows a similar one by IBM earlier this week, although IBM’s is on a much larger scale. On Monday that vendor said it will no longer sell general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software, and it did not put a timeline on quitting that part of its business.

“We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,” Amazon said in a blog post. “We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested.”

The technology has come under increased scrutiny lately following weeks of nationwide protests about racism and police brutality triggered by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.

On Monday House Democrats introduced a police reform bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement’s use of real-time facial recognition technology.

Amazon did say it will continue to allow some organizations to continue using Amazon Rekognition, and specifically those that work to stop human trafficking and reunite missing children with their families.

Facial recognition technology in general has been criticized for bias because the algorithms are prone to misidentify black and Asian faces more frequently than white faces. And a 2019 study found Amazon Rekognition had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.

On Monday IBM CEO Arvind Krishna sent a letter to the U.S. Congress and said his company is ditching its work with general purpose facial recognition or analysis software tied to the use of such technology for surveillance activity that can be used for racial profiling or to violate “basic human rights and freedoms.”