Michael Schwimer knows what most people think of tout services, sellers of sports-gambling picks. And even though he’s getting into the business himself, he agrees with them.

Casinos in the U.S. have used facial recognition since the 1990s, but those deployments may have to be adjusted based on potential changes to federal privacy or data protection law, according to Casino.org.

Casinos could increasingly become part of a national debate on how to regulate and use biometric surveillance and related high-tech methods of data collection on gaming patrons.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. and MGM Resorts International have had talks about Wynn selling its yet-to-open $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor to MGM.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. has proposed that its co-founder, Steve Wynn, be banned from the buildings that bear his name.

Cryptocurrency gambling at US casinos — with digital currencies like Bitcoin — remains a long-shot, even though a new Rutgers University study found that more than 50 percent of active gamblers traded in cryptos in a recent year.

Half an hour before a preseason hockey game last fall, Ted Leonsis strolled down the concourse of Capital One Arena in Washington, stopping every now and then to pose for someone’s selfie. Leonsis owns both the Washington Capitals, the National Hockey League team, and the arena itself, a squat behemoth that fills a block of Chinatown not far from Ford’s Theater. He also owns other teams that play there, including the Washington Wizards, in the National Basketball Association, and some smaller ones that don’t.

The legal reasoning behind the Justice Department’s unusual reversal this week of an opinion that paved the way for online gambling hewed closely to arguments made by lobbyists for casino magnate and top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson.