Governments around the world, including dozens of U.S. states, have increasingly passed laws requiring some form of age verification to access certain types of online content, usually pornography. Australia has even gone as far as banning social media for teens under 16 , while countries like Spain, Indonesia, and Malaysia are considering similar restrictions. But as these laws continue to spread, so has a simple workaround : virtual private networks, or VPNs. Now, Utah is the first state in the U.S. to officially try to close that loophole. On Wednesday, a new law known as the Online Age Verification Amendments will go into effect in the state, and privacy advocates are not happy about it. “Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy.…